Two Albanian sailors killed in Norman Atlantic ferry rescue

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Two Albanian tugboat sailors died Tuesday during operations to secure the Greek ferry that's been adrift for three days since a fire broke out on a car deck, killing 10 people.


The sailors were apparently hit by a line that they had been trying to attach to the crippled, fire-blackened Norman Atlantic, said Dionis Dulaj, the police spokesman in the Albanian port town of Vlore, closest to where the ferry has been drifting



Defense Ministry spokeswoman Edlira Prendi announced the deaths. One man had quickly been confirmed dead while a medical team had worked on the second but could not save him. Read more...


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