The oil tanker, including the Turkish crew, hit a mine in the Bystro canal.
A Liberian-flagged oil tanker hit a mine off the coast of Romania in the Black Sea yesterday and minor damage occurred. It was reported that the crew was safe.
Reminding the dangers faced by commercial ships in the region, the ship became the second ship to encounter a mine in the Black Sea this month.
Yörük Işık, president of the Bosphorus Observer consultancy company, told Reuters that the Ali Najafov tanker was near the Sulina canal near Romania when the explosion occurred yesterday.
The damaged Liberian-flagged ship, built in 2001, was anchored in Vilkova accompanied by tugboats.
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