A Turkish-flagged fishing trawler sank in the northern waters of the Black Sea on Friday, June 5, following an apparent attack that left one mariner dead and four others wounded. Rescue operations and casualties According to an official statement released by the Turkish Coast Guard Command, the fishing vessel Duru 67 “came under attack” while operating west of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Sevastopol. The brief military dispatch did not provide immediate details regarding the perpetrator of the strike or the specific type of weaponry utilized to destroy the vessel.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Following the impact, five wounded Turkish sailors were successfully evacuated from the water by a secondary commercial trawler, the Burak Kaya. However, one of the heavily injured mariners succumbed to his wounds while the rescue ship was en route back toward the Turkish coastline. To expedite emergency medical interventions, a Turkish Coast Guard vessel carrying a dedicated trauma team intercepted the Burak Kaya approximately 213 kilometers (132 miles) north of the Turkish port of Inebolu. The remaining four survivors were transferred to the military cutter for immediate triage. Following a 15-hour return voyage across the Black Sea, the wounded men were transferred to a provincial hospital in the capital of the Kastamonu province. Fevzi Yavuzyilmaz, the director of the Kastamonu Provincial Health Directorate, confirmed that the crew members had sustained extensive shrapnel injuries. Yavuzyilmaz noted that medical staff on board the coast guard cutter were forced to perform an emergency surgical operation at sea to stabilize one of the victims.