By IANS,
Moscow : All 11 crew members aboard a Russian ship that went missing in the White Sea were found alive and rescued, Xinhua reported.
On Tuesday, the Emergency Situations Ministry confirmed that the Captain Kuznetsov, en route from St. Petersburg to the Arctic Sea port city of Arkhangelsk, went missing in the White Sea without sending any SOS signals.
The Transport Ministry Wednesday in a statement said that the crew members aboard the Russian ship — Captain Kuznetsov — have been safely rescued.
Rescuers landed on the deck of the “Captain Kuznetsov” from a helicopter and evacuated the crew members after the vessel ran aground in the White Sea, the ministry’s press service stated.
In a statement, the ship’s owner company said the ship had been stranded by a storm in the White Sea and forced to stop all its engines.