{"id":9410,"date":"2024-12-26T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9410"},"modified":"2024-12-26T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T08:06:16","slug":"russia-ascribes-ship-blast-to-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/security\/russia-ascribes-ship-blast-to-terrorist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia ascribes ship blast to \u2018terrorist attack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: A \u201cterrorist act\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1880953\/blast-sinks-russian-cargo-ship-in-mediterranean\">sank the cargo ship<\/a>&nbsp;that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian state-owned company that owns the vessel said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oboronlogistika company said it \u201cthinks a targeted terrorist attack was committed on Dec 23, 2024, against the Ursa Major,\u201d it said in a statement cited by Russian news agencies, without indicating who may have been behind the act or why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ship sank in international waters off Spain in the early hours of Tuesday after having sent a distress call for help on Monday, \u201cThree consecutive explosions\u201d took place on the ship before it began taking on water, added the company, which belongs to the Russian defence ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oboronlogistika did not say what evidence it had allowing it to conclude a terrorist attack sank the Ursa Major. Russian foreign ministry\u2019s crisis unit said on Telegram on Tuesday that the ship sank \u201cafter an explosion in the engine room\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that out of the 16 Russian crew members on board, 14 had been rescued and taken to the Spanish port of Cartagena and two were missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ship sent a distress call on Monday morning from off the coast of southeastern Spain in bad weather, reporting it was listing and sailors had launched a lifeboat, Spain\u2019s sea rescue service said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain sent out a helicopter and rescue boats and took the survivors to port, the service said. A Russian warship then arrived and took charge of the rescue operation since the ship was between Spanish and Algerian waters, after which the Ursa Major sank overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ursa Major is listed on MarineTraffic.com as a 124.7-metre (409-foot) long general cargo ship. It is owned by a subsidiary of Russia\u2019s Oboronlogistika, which belongs to the defence ministry and also provides civilian transport and logistics, the Russian foreign ministry said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: A \u201cterrorist act\u201d&nbsp;sank the cargo ship&nbsp;that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian state-owned company that owns the vessel said on Wednesday. The Oboronlogistika company said it \u201cthinks a targeted terrorist attack was committed on Dec 23, 2024, against the Ursa Major,\u201d it said in a statement cited by [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}