At the Russian Embassy in Greece confirmed That the ferry Norman Atlantic, burning in the Ionian sea, there were two Russian citizens.

" We can assure you, it's our citizens. As We explained in the foreign Ministry of Greece, they were recorded on a Russian passport. Us Greeks explained That they had no doubt in the Russian citizenship of these 2 people. But We until can't get in touch with them, " said Fins news in the Embassy.

Fire on the ferry EN route from Greece to Italy, started early in the morning on a Sunday in the garage Bay. In the salon at the time of the fire there were about 470 people, and among them more than 410 passengers. After a couple of hours after the fire started Norman Atlantic lost control, and started to drift to the Albanian coast. According to the summary data, the boat is located at 39 kilometres from the Italian city of Otranto and 13 kilometers from the Albanian port of Vlora.

" As to their fate, the information is contradictory. We in the foreign Ministry of Greece stated That the joint citizens were evacuated from the ferry among the first 49 passengers. But then the Russian Ambassador's residence in Italy, these data could not assure " - said the Agency interlocutor.

on the first day of the week the Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi said That all the passengers were evacuated from the burning in the Ionian sea ferry Norman Atlantic.

in the list of passengers Norman Atlantic there are names 2 Ukrainians and eight Residents of Georgia. More than just the beauty of the Greek population - 234 people, also on the ferry are 54 Turkish subjects and 22 citizen of Albania and Italy. In addition, among the passengers there were 18 people in Germany, 10 subjects Switzerland, nine French, 7 Residents of Bulgaria, six Austrians, five Syrians, three subjects Macedonia, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as two citizens of Hungary, Afghanistan, the UK and Iraq and one national of Romania, Croatia, Sweden, Canada, Egypt and Malta. From the crew - 22 Italian and 34 Greek.

victims PE, according to the summary data, five people were.

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