At least 8 dead and more missing after ferry carrying hundreds capsizes off Cyprus’ northern coast
The prime minister of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ünal Üstel, said the ferry’s capsizing was “the biggest maritime disaster Cyprus has ever experienced,” adding that the vessel’s captain and seven crew members have been detained.
A search and rescue operation was continuing uninterrupted in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry carrying nearly 270 people capsized while traveling from northern Cyprus to Turkey, killing at least eight people.
The ferry was one of several shuttle sea services that link north Cyprus, a breakaway unrecognized Turkish Cypriot state, with Turkey daily.
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