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Two Ukrainian citizens that were injured in an explosion on the Edirne, a Turkish tanker that sank off the coast of Albania on January 15, have been discharged from hospital, according to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.

The ministry’s spokesman, Oleksandr Dykusarov, said during a briefing on Tuesday that according to Ukraine’s Embassy in Greece, the citizens of Ukraine were accommodated in a hotel and will return to Ukraine in some four or five days.
As reported, the Turkish tanker sank off in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Albania. According to Georgian media, three out of the 15 crewmembers – two Georgian sailors and the tanker’s captain, a citizen of Azerbaijan – died in the accident. Two Ukrainians were injured and hospitalized.
The sunken Turkish tanker was flying the flag of Sierra Leone, and its crew included 15 people, among them citizens of Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. According to preliminary findings, an explosion caused the vessel to sink.