{"id":585617,"date":"2026-10-06T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=585617"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:07:20","slug":"drones-strike-two-vessels-in-bulgaria-s-exclusive-economic-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/drones-strike-two-vessels-in-bulgaria-s-exclusive-economic-zone","title":{"rendered":"Drones Strike Two Vessels in Bulgaria\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Drones struck two vessels in the Black Sea, in Bulgaria\u2019s exclusive economic zone.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgnes.bg\/dronove-udariha-dva-koraba-v-balgarski-vodi-feribot-spasi-ekipaja-na-ediniq-drugiqt-potana-v-moreto-kray-bqla\">BGNES<\/a>, a rescue operation is under way east of Cape St. Atanas and the town of Byala. According to preliminary information, two bulk carriers were attacked: the Togo-flagged ALFA WATAN and the Palau-flagged ABLE.<\/p>\n<p>ALFA WATAN sustained serious damage and sank. There is no information on its crew so far.<\/p>\n<p>The second vessel caught fire after the explosion. The bulk carrier\u2019s crew of 18 was evacuated. The sailors were picked up by a Bulgarian passenger ferry. Some of those rescued were injured. They are receiving medical assistance aboard the Bulgarian vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones struck two vessels in the Black Sea, in Bulgaria\u2019s exclusive economic zone. According to BGNES, a rescue operation is under way east of Cape St. Atanas and the town of Byala. According to preliminary information, two bulk carriers were attacked: the Togo-flagged ALFA WATAN and the Palau-flagged ABLE. ALFA WATAN sustained serious damage and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac4ac3c49c42.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drones Strike Two Vessels in Bulgaria\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585618,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585617\/revisions\/585618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}