There are 139 rescue workers currently deployed in the area, searching for missing crewmembers, Nikita Gavrilyak from the local emergency service told RIA.
The ship belonged to a Turkish company, a source in the agency’s press service told TASS.
Seven crewmembers have been missing since the crash, a source in the emergency services told RIA Novosti.
“The Geroi Arsenala sank, five people have been rescued, the search for seven people is under way,” the source said.
However, some conflicting reports said that only one of the crewmembers has been rescued alive.
Two Russians, nine Ukrainians, and one Georgian were aboard the ship, Russia’s Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport said, as cited by RIA Novosti.
The ship, which was sailing under the Panamanian flag and heading from the Russian port city of Azov to Turkey, was loaded with grain.
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