2 dead, 1 missing after cargo ship sinks off Romania's Black Sea

One crew member was still missing after a Russian dry-cargo ship with 13 sailors on board sank early Thursday in the Black Sea near the Romanian coast, reported Xinhua.

Two sailors were killed and ten others were rescued. Search and rescue work carried out by a ship of the Coast Guard and a frigate of the Romanian Naval Forces was still ongoing to find the last crew member.

Nine of the ten rescued crew members were transported to the port of Constanta late in the evening. Earlier, the only woman in the crew was evacuated to the shore by a helicopter in the afternoon, after her health condition worsened.

The cargo Volgo Balt 179 sank some 76 nautical miles (140.75 km) from the port of Constanta, Romania's main seaport located in the southeast of the country, most likely due to a storm that occurred offshore, according to the Petroleum Services Group (GSP), a Romanian company providing offshore integrated services for oil and gas industry.

The company's offshore support vessel GSP FALCON was the first to receive an emergency message from the sinking ship.

The ship was transporting coal from the Russian Port Rostov-on-Don to Constanta Port. Its crew are said to be all Ukrainian citizens.