Contship Jet Sinks With 421 Containers After 3 Naval Drones Hit Off Bulgaria
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Updated · i24NEWS · Oct 29
Contship Jet Sinks With 421 Containers After 3 Naval Drones Hit Off Bulgaria
3 articles · Updated · i24NEWS · Oct 29
Summary
Three unmanned surface vehicles struck the Israeli-operated Contship Jet near Varna around noon local time, and the cargo ship sank hours later off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.
All crew members were rescued unharmed, ZIM said, while French maritime patrol aircraft flew reconnaissance missions and supported the rescue operation.
The Greek-owned vessel had left Haifa on Sunday for Constanta, just north of the sinking site, underscoring how close the attack came to a routine commercial route.
The Contship Jet was the ninth civilian ship hit in the Black Sea this month, with more than 30 sailors killed across the wider wave of attacks.
Suspicion is increasingly falling on Russia, though Bulgaria has not assigned blame, and the sinking came as Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey's defense ministers met on Black Sea maritime security.