Ceremony in commemoration of Sanchi oil tanker victims 

A ceremony in commemoration of victims of Sanchi oil taker which sank on January 14 was held in Shahid Motahhari school in Tehran on Sunday morning.  President Hassan Rouhani as well as other high ranking officials along with victims’ families mourn the tragic loss of 32 sailors.  The Sanchi, heading South Korea with 136,000 tons of Iran’s light crude oil, collided with a Chinese freighter off east coast of China on January 6. The oil tanker caught fire due to the collision and after days of burning, eventually sank on January 14.  Following the tragic incident all those aboard, including 30 Iranian sailors and Bangladeshi ones, lost their lives. The bodies of the victims are still missing.