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Freight Ship Sinks Off Turkey’s Black Sea Coast As Many Lost Their Lives

  A ccording to Bartin Governor Sinan Guner, a  Palau-flagged freight ship has sunk off the coast of Turkey’s Black Sea province of Bartin, killing at least three(3) crew members. Governor Guner had said earlier on Sunday that the ship, the Arvin, was a Russian dry freight vessel that sank off the coast of the Inkumu region in poor weather, but later corrected that. “The Arvin ship attempted to take refuge at the Bartin port due to poor weather conditions as it carried cargo from Georgia to Bulgaria,” Guner was quoted as saying by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. The coastguard said the ship had sunk after taking in water amid poor weather. Meanwhile, six(6) crew members had been rescued and efforts were under way to rescue others, it said in a statement. Anadolu said that all of them were hospitalised and were in good condition. The Russian state agency overseeing sea and river fleets said that only two crew members were Russian nationals and that the vessel belonged t...

A Woman Fell To Her Death Celebrating End Of Lockdown.

A young  woman from  Kazakhstan  has fallen more than 110 feet to her death just last weekend after posing for a cliffside photo to celebrate the end of the country's COVID-19  lockdown. It was her companion who called the emergency services, and her lifeless body was pulled out of the water and taken to the morgue of Antalya Forensic Medicine Institue for an autopsy. Authorities determined her death was an accident, according to her relatives.