Eleven sailors are missing following a drone attack on a vessel off the coast of Bulgaria, according to Bulgarian officials, prompting the country’s government to summon the Russian ambassador.
Overnight there were two attacks on merchant vessels in the Black Sea, Bulgarian officials said, with one Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship, the “HS Dignity,” being sunk 15 nautical miles east of the Bulgarian village of Krapets – leading to an urgent search and rescue operation.
The search for the missing crew members – believed to be Syrian and Egyptian nationals – is still ongoing as of Tuesday afternoon, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry told CNN. Five people in the 16-person crew had already been rescued by other merchant vessels, the ministry said.
