[ 02 April 2015 16:53 ]



Moscow. Farid Akberov – APA. A Russian trawler sank in icy seas off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Thursday, killing at least 56 of the 132 crew, the emergencies ministry said on Thursday, APA reports quoting Reuters.

63 people were rescued but 13 were still unaccounted for, hours after the Dalniy Vostok fishing vessel sank in the Sea of Okhotsk so quickly that its captain, who drowned, did not manage to send a distress signal. The trawler was carrying 78 Russians and 54 foreign nationals.

 

7 of the rescued persons are in critical condition. 7 of the crew members were Azerbaijanis. 4 of them were rescued.