Israeli forces find bodies of two missing sailors

JERUSALEM, Aug 31 (Reuters) Israeli forces retrieved today the bodies of two sailors declared missing off the coast of the northern port of Haifa after an Israeli freighter collided with a Cypriot cruise ship, emergency services said.

The forces had rescued 11 crew from the ''Shelly'' cargo vessel, which sank in yesterday's collision. Israeli media said they were mostly Indonesian and Ukrainian and were en route to Cyprus. Israel Radio said the men who died were from Slovakia.

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