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Night search for missing sailors from sunken ship bring no results

On Friday, a private sailing scow sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk with 13 people on board

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 10. /TASS/. Nighttime search on ships for missing sailors from the sunken ship Anatoly Krashennikov did not bring any results. The search will not continue on helicopters, head of the Kamchatsky maritime rescue coordination center Artur Rets told TASS on Saturday.

"Ships passing the site of the incident at night did not find anyone. Search for the three missing persons will continue on helicopters," Rets said.

On Friday, a private sailing scow sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk with 13 people on board. Ten people were saved by a nearby ship.

Ships sailing in the area close to the incident searched for the sunken ship captain and his two assistants. According to the Russian maritime shipping register, the sunken ship was registered in the Far Eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The ship was transporting building materials and equipment to the settlement of Palana in the north of Kamchatka.