MOSCOW: A Russian cargo ship that bumped into bother on Monday (Dec 23) in the Mediterranean Sea and later sank was rocked by a collection of three explosions in “an act of terrorism,” state information company RIA cited the vessel’s proprietor as saying on Wednesday.
Russia’s Overseas Ministry mentioned on Tuesday that the “Ursa Main,” in-built 2009, sank after an explosion ripped by means of its engine room and that two of its 16 crew have been lacking.
RIA cited Oboronlogistika, the ship’s final proprietor and an organization that’s a part of the Russian Defence Ministry’s army development operations, as saying on Wednesday that the vessel had been focused in “a terrorist act.”
It cited Oboronlogistika as saying that the ship’s surviving 14 crew members had reported that three consecutive explosions on the ship’s starboard facet had detonated at 1350 Moscow time (1050 GMT) within the vessel’s aft on Dec. 23.
The ship had then begun to sharply listing because it was clearly taking in water, RIA cited Oboronlogistika as saying. The ship was not overloaded, it added.
It was carrying two big port cranes on its deck with their loading buckets, two heavy hatch covers for ice-breaking vessels, 129 empty containers, and a 20-foot container with roofing gear, RIA mentioned.
