{"id":305570,"date":"2026-10-13T06:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305570\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:36:44","slug":"drones-hit-ships-in-black-sea-sinking-1-and-prompting-rescue-operations-bulgaria-says-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305570\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1 and prompting rescue operations, Bulgaria says | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) \u2014 Drones struck two ships in the Black Sea off Bulgaria, sinking one and prompting emergency rescue operations, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>One crew member from the sunken vessel was rescued, he said, without providing details on the others aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers evacuated all 15 crew members from the other ship, the Maltese-flagged Chelsea 3, with five receiving treatment for minor injuries, Radev said.<\/p>\n<p>He called the attacks \u201cabsolutely unacceptable\u201d and sought NATO and European Union assistance, saying Bulgaria lacked clear evidence to identify who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) \u2014 Drones struck two ships in the Black Sea off Bulgaria, sinking one and prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,125405,30569,49,38,50,301],"class_list":["post-305570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bulgaria-black-sea-drones-ships","tag-drones","tag-evacuations","tag-general-news","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}