The Russian-flagged, 9,500-dwt general cargo ship Ursa Major (built 2009) sank in the Mediterranean early on Christmas Eve as a result of a “terrorist attack”, the vessel’s owner was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
The ship went down after “three successive explosions … on the starboard side near the stern,” Russian shipping company Oboronlogistics said in a statement reported by the Ria Novosti news agency.
