A large commercial ship was forced onto the rocks in Paphos, Cyprus during a bout of severe weather early this morning, according to ‘Cyprus Mail’.
Police authorities said the Sierra Leone-flagged Edro III left the Cypriot port of Limassol for the Greek island of Rhodes but ran into trouble about 10 miles off Paphos, in the island’s south-west.
Crew members of the Greek-owned ship are thought to be from Egypt and Albania and the area has been closed to the public by police.
A helicopter from a British base near Limassol, on the south coast, airlifted seven of the nine-member crew to the island where they were given precautionary medical treatment.
It is not yet clear how the ship will be removed from the rocks.
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