Six sailors missing as two vessels collide off Bulgarian coast

ATHENS. November 30. KAZINFORM 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. Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

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 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. Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version