Oct 5 (Reuters) – Romanian authorities said on Monday that two people had died and others had been rescued after a fire on a ship in the Black Sea outside Romania’s territorial waters.
Romania’s interior ministry said 11 crew members of the ship, which it described as sinking, had been rescued. The country’s Naval Authority said the incident involved a fire on the ship Royad Mammadov.
The authorities did not give details on the cause of the fire, and a spokesperson for the Romanian Naval Authority said she could not provide more information.