Two dead, 11 rescued in serious maritime incident in Black Sea, Romania says

Oct 5 (Reuters) – Romanian authorities said on Monday that two people had died and others were rescued in a serious maritime incident involving a fire that prompted rescue actions for a sinking ship outside Romania’s territorial waters.

Romania’s interior ministry said 11 crew members of the ship had been rescued. The country’s Naval Authority said the incident involved a fire on the ship Royad Mammadov.

(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Jason Hovet; Editing by Aidan Lewis)


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