Sailor aboard gas tanker hit near Romanian waters dies in hospital

23 July 2026 One of the sailors injured following the explosion that occurred aboard the Gas Lisbon vessel while it was transiting the Black Sea near Romania’s territorial waters has died. The sailor who died was one of the three crew members who were transported to hospital after the incident. He was hospitalized at the Tulcea County Emergency Hospital. The three were brought to the hospital two days ago, after the vessel they were on was engulfed in flames. "He suffered burns to the airways and had a pulmonary complication related to this burn, which caused his death," said Tudor-Ion Năstăsescu, the director of the medical unit, according to News.ro. The other two injured sailors, both of Filipino origin, are hospitalized in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit. "They are in a stable condi