Six sailors went missing after two ships collided in the Black Sea, some 20 km off the coast of Bulgaria on Monday, the Sofia-based Novinite.com news portal said.
The Karim 1 cargo ship, sailing under the flag of Sierra Leone and loaded with scrap metal, sank south of Bulgaria's Emine Cape after colliding with "a much larger Dutch oil tanker sailing under the flag of Sierra Leone."
The sunken vessel had a crew of nine Syrian nationals and one Egyptian. Four sailors were rescued, six still listed as missing.
The news portal quoted Director of the Bulgarian Maritime Administration Agency Sergey Tsarnakliyski as saying that the collision was most likely caused by "incorrect maneuvers."
The name of the tanker, which suffered only minor damages in the collision, was not disclosed. It was sailing empty, so there is no danger of oil spill, the Bulgarian website reported.
ATHENS, November 30 (RIA Novosti)
