The number of ships attacked off the coast of Bulgaria has increased to two

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The number of ships attacked by drones off the coast of Bulgaria has increased to two, one of them sank.

Bulgaria has launched an emergency search and rescue operation to rescue the remaining crew members of the sunken ship.

MOSCOW, October 13 - RIA Novosti. The number of ships attacked by drones off the coast of Bulgaria has increased to two, one of them sank, the BTA agency reports, citing the country's Prime Minister Rumen Radev.

On Tuesday, the news portal Maritime.bg reported that a Maltese-flagged ship was attacked by a UAV off the Bulgarian coast in the Black Sea. As a result, two sailors were injured.

“Radev reported that one ship (flying the flag of Malta - ed.) was hit as a result of an attack by three drones 18 nautical miles east of the coast of the city of Byala, another ship 17 nautical miles east of the resort of Krapets was hit and sank, while one crew member was rescued,” BTA reports, citing Radev.

Bulgaria has launched an emergency search and rescue operation to save the remaining crew members of a ship that sank in the Black Sea, the prime minister added.

He also said that an emergency meeting of the security council had been convened due to the incident.

In early October, Bulgaria already initiated an investigation after drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea. Then we were talking about the grain carrier Able under the Palau flag, from which 18 sailors were evacuated, two of them were seriously injured. The crew of the sunken ship Alfa Watan, sailing under the flag of Togo, went missing.