Ship runs aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal -sources

2022.09.01 02:05

An aerial view of the Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal are pictured through the window of an airplane on a flight between Cairo and Doha, Egypt, November 27, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

CAIRO (Reuters) -A ship ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal late on Wednesday and tug boats were working to release it, two navigational sources said.

The sources said the vessel had been blocking navigation in the canal, though a separate source from the Suez Canal Authority said shortly afterwards that the ship had been refloated.

There was no immediate official confirmation of the reported incident from the SCA.

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