ISMAILIA, Egypt — Rescue divers in Egypt retrieved Sunday the physique of a crew member from inside a tugboat that sank within the Suez Canal, authorities in command of the important thing waterway mentioned.
“Divers found the body in the cabin of the sunken tugboat,” Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, mentioned in a press release.
Mechanic El-Sayed Moussa was the one member of the seven-person crew unaccounted for after the tugboat collided with a Hong-Kong flagged tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gasoline on Saturday.
Five crew members have been discharged from hospital, in keeping with Sunday’s assertion, with one nonetheless held for commentary.
Traffic within the Suez Canal was not affected, authorities mentioned, as restoration of the sunken vessel was underway.
Connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal accounts for roughly 10 % of worldwide maritime commerce and nearly all of oil transported by sea.
The final confirmed loss of life of a Suez Canal worker occurred in 2021, throughout the six-day salvage operation to refloat the tremendous tanker Ever Given, which bought caught diagonally throughout the waterway throughout a sandstorm. — Agence France-Presse
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