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    The search for the missing sailors in Sochi with the cargo ship Besiktash suspended because of darkness. Feb. 15 search and rescue operation at sea can be extended if weather permitting.

    The search for the missing sailors in Sochi with the cargo ship Besiktash suspended because of darkness. Feb. 15 search and rescue operation at sea can be extended if weather permitting.

    As reported by ITAR-TASS news agency in emergency department in the city until the inspection area, involving six ships - the border patrol boat "Valery Zamaraev" icebreaker "Triton", floating workshop "Archangel Michael" and seagoing tugs "Epron", "Adler" and Ruslan - have failed. Because of the storm also delayed pumping fuel from the stern, filling no threat.

    10 rescued sailors did not require medical attention, they were all housed in a hotel. Sochi's transport prosecutor's office continues to conduct testing, the question of initiation into the matter of criminal proceedings.

    Turkish cargo ship Besiktash crashed in the waters of Sochi in the morning on February 13 . How to set a consequence, when entering the ship transporting the basalt rubble, a sea port in a storm force of 4-5 points, there was a fracture of the hull. As a result, the aft cargo vessel was thrown on the shore about 500 meters south of the sea port of Sochi, a prow sank. At the time of the accident on board were 12 crew members, 3 of them a citizen of Georgia, 6 citizens of Turkey, 2 citizens of Azerbaijan, a citizen of Montenegro. Missing crew members including two cargo vessel: the second mate Beridze Georgian citizen, born in 1967 and a citizen of Montenegro, electrician ship Markovic, born in 1976.

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