Eight still missing from sunken ship in the White Sea
Only one of the nine people on board have been found after a freighter carrying building materials sank in a storm in the White Sea in the end of July.
The freighter Varnek was on its way from Arkhangelsk to Shoyna on the west coast of the Kanin Peninsula with 130 tons of concrete blocks, containers and provisions when it was last heard from on July 23, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
Because of the storm, search and rescue operations could not start until July 26.
The vessel had a crew of five and four passengers, including an 8 months old child. The child’s mother is the only one of the people on board who has been found. Her body was identified by relatives on Friday, web site News.Mail.ru writes.
The vessel is lying with the keel up some 70 kilometers outside the Kanin Peninsula. Rescue workers are now trying to turn the vessel around. A life raft has been found empty close to the vessel.
