One seaman is missing and 17 others were hospitalised after a fierce storm drove a cargoship onto a cliff face along Turkey’s coast on Friday.

Sea Bright.

A rescue operation is also underway to evacuate nine crew members of another vessel said to have been grounded in the adverse weather.



Seventeen crew of the 7,402-dwt Sea Bright (built 1978) were rescued after it was driven onto rocks and against a cliff off Antalya region early on Friday.



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