Dozens of sheep drown after cargo ship overturns in Romania

Port authorities tried to right a capsized ship on Monday to rescue thousands of sheep which are trapped below deck in the Black Sea off Romania. The Palau-registered Queen Hind flipped onto its side shortly after leaving Romania's Midia port en route to Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Its crew, most of them are Syrians, were rescued. Just 50 of the ship's estimated load of 14,000 animals have been rescued so far, the naval official said. Agriculture minister said his department, the transport ministry, and the national food and animal safety watchdog had launched an investigation into why the ship capsized. Romania is the European Union's biggest exporter of live sheep to the Middle East.