Italian cargo ship sinks off France’s Atlantic coast

RENNES, France: An Italian cargo ship sank about 330 kilometres off the western Atlantic coast of France on Tuesday after rescue vessels were unable to put out a fire that broke out late Sunday, officials said.

All 27 people aboard the "Grande America" were rescued without injury on Monday night. The ship was on its way from Hamburg, Germany, to Casablanca in Morocco before the blaze, "which intensified over the past 24 hours," French naval authorities said on Twitter. "The ship had been listing increasingly to the right as time went on," it added.