
The Egyptian Navy rescued last week ten crewmembers of a Lebanese cargo ship that sank off the coast of Alexandria in the Mediterranean Sea, an Egyptian military statement said.
Spokesperson of the armed forces Colonel Gharib Abdelhafez said on his official page that as part of the continued efforts to support maritime search and rescue work in all strategic routes on the Egyptian coast, the naval forces managed to rescue crewmembers of a Lebanese cargo ship after it sank off Alexandria.