Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 7 / Trend S. Agayeva /
The Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine has given some information about the Azerbaijanis on the cargo ship in trouble in the Sea of Azov.
The Panamanian cargo ship Avak 1 gave a distress signal whilst in the Sea of Azov in the Zaporozhye region at 05:40 today. The tentative coordinates of the cargo ship disaster is 30 miles from Berdyansk and 100 miles from the Kerch. The temperature in the disaster area is minus 19 degrees with a gusty 17 m / s. wind, Ukrainian media reported.
Assistant chief of the Zaporozhye region state department of the ministry of emergency situations Yulia Barysheva said that the cargo ship crew consisted of 12 members: three Ukrainians, one Turk and eight Azerbaijanis.
To date the Azerbaijani embassy has no exact information about the presence of Azerbaijani citizens in the cargo crew. Information is being gathered, the embassy told Trend.