Cargo ship disappears from radar in Black Sea near Istanbul: media

The Russian Navy’s large landing ship Caesar Kunikov sails in the Bosphorus toward the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey Oct. 29, 2017. (Reuters/Murad Sezer)

ISTANBUL: A cargo ship with around 10 crew on board has disappeared from radar in the Black Sea near the Asian side of Istanbul and search operations have begun, Turkey’s Dogan news agency reported on Wednesday.
A Turkish coast guard official told Reuters that the authority was looking into the report that the ship had gone missing off the coast at Sile.