Guinea-Bissau flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board sank off Türkiye's Mediterranean coast on Wednesday, Turkish officials said, APA reports citing Associated Press.
Five crew members were rescued while efforts to find nine others were underway.
The Joe 2 sank off the coast of Kumluca, in Antalya province, while heading to Ukraine from the Turkish port of Iskenderun, Gov. Ersin Yazici said.
The cause of the ship sinking was not immediately clear.
The Turkish Coast Guard Command said it received a distress call at 3:47 a.m. and dispatched a vessel, several boats and two helicopters. Two crew members were rescued by the coast guard helicopters while three others were saved by other vessels in the area, it said.
The coast guard said an investigation has been launched by the chief prosecutor’s office for Kumluca.
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