Two Ukrainian citizens, crewmembers of the Edirne, a Turkish tanker that sank off the coast of Albania on Jan.15, have been hospitalized, but there is no threat to their health and lives, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov has said.
"According to the Ukrainian Embassy in Greece, the Edirne, a tanker with two citizens of Ukraine on board, sank in the territorial waters of Albania on Jan. 15. The Ukrainian citizens have been saved, hospitalized, and there is no threat to their health and lives," the ministry’s press service quoted Dykusarov as saying.
He said that the Ukrainian Embassy in Greece and the Consular Service Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry were overseeing the case.
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.
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 was the cause of the accident.
