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Romanian Navy resumes search for missing crew of sunken Astana tugboat
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The Romanian Naval Forces have restarted the rescue operation to locate three sailors who went missing after their vessel, the *Astana*, sank near Portul Midia on March 18th at approximately midnight local time (0935 UTC). This renewed effort marks a third day of operations following an initial search that yielded no results.
Key Points
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1Romanian Navy has resumed search operations for three missing sailors following the sinking of the barge 'Astana'.
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2The incident occurred in the waters near Midia port.
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3Search efforts are continuing at least four days after the vessel sank, as reported across multiple news outlets on March 21st.
Developments
[Mar 21]
Romanian Navy resumed search operations for three missing sailors following the sinking of barge 'Astana' near Midia port (Gandul.ro, Rss.stirileprotv.ro).
[Mar 20 or earlier to Mar 19]
The crew consisted at least three sailors who went missing after the barge 'Astana' sank near Midia port (Biziday.de, Adevarul.org)