By RIA Novosti
Simferopol (Ukraine) : Ukrainian rescue services have resumed their search for eight missing crewmembers of a Bulgarian cargo ship that sank Thursday in the Azov Sea between Ukraine and Russia, an emergency service spokesman said Friday.
The Vanessa, carrying scrap metal, with 11 crew members, including 10 Bulgarian and an Ukrainian national, sank Thursday morning about 48 km from the Kerch Strait. One Bulgarian mechanic has been rescued, and two bodies have been found by now, emergency service officials said.
The search operation was suspended Thursday because of bad weather conditions.
In November last year, a storm in the Kerch Strait sank four ships and an oil tanker. At least six sailors died in the accidents and the tanker mishap resulted in about 2,000 metric tonnes of fuel oil spilling onto the sea.