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Sailors from Egyptian Dredger Being Rescued
An Egyptian dredger sank in the Suez Canal Wednesday. Of 40 sailors, quite a few were injured and some got missing, Reuters reported with reference to the management of the Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal has been closed for some time as a result. The rescue effort is underway now, and no reasons of the accident have been reported so far.
Today’s accident is by far not the first disaster that has recently hit the ships of Egypt. In late August, a ferry with some 1,000 Moslems, who were going home from Saudi Arabia after the hadj, came to a stop squawking SOS a kilometer from the Saudi coast after the crew found some breakdowns in the engine.
In February, Al-Salam 98 ferry sank in the Red Sea. It also had the pilgrims from Saudi Arabia aboard. Of 1,400 passengers and the crew, only 387 were rescued in the end. The root cause of this biggest shipwreck in the history of Egypt was the fire in the garage compartment. The crew used great amount of seawater to fight the fire, which careened the ferry and led to its sinking.
www.kommersant.com
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