A ship sank in the Barents Sea, almost the entire crew died

The ship sank due to ice formation 550 kilometers from Murmansk, only two people were saved.

The fishing vessel Onega sank in the Barents Sea, killing 17 of the 19 people, he writes Monday, December 28, in Interfax.

“We have received information about the sinking of the ship Onega in the water area of ​​the Barents Sea near Novaya Zemlya of the Arkhangelsk region due to the formation of ice. The ship was fishing,” Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said.

It shows that they managed to save two people, the rest look for the Voikovo ship. In addition to the crash site, three boats were dispatched.

The rescued crew members were also reported to be in wetsuits. “The fishing boats that came to the rescue rescued two crew members alive, they were in diving suits. The captain is not among them. They do not know about the rest of the crew,” said the source.

“The ship belongs to an individual, it is registered in Murmansk. After the accident, the crew issued several distress signals, in automatic and manual mode,” said the agency interlocutor.

It was previously reported that in the port of Las Palmas on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, there was a fire in the Russian fishing boat Sveaborg, which killed three citizens of Ukraine.

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