{"id":7550,"date":"2026-09-24T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2026-09-24T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:45:22","slug":"12-kazakh-servicemen-dead-after-being-swept-out-to-sea-during-naval-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/12-kazakh-servicemen-dead-after-being-swept-out-to-sea-during-naval-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Kazakh servicemen dead after being swept out to sea during naval exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll among Kazakh servicemen swept out to sea during a naval military exercise in the Caspian Sea reached 12, the administration of the Caspian Mangystau Region of Kazakhstan said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to updated data, during the performance of a combat training task, due to a sharp deterioration in meteorological conditions and strengthening wind, 17 people were swept out to sea, 12 of them died, three were rescued. The search for the remaining two servicemen continues,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry said earlier that the servicemen died while carrying out a combat training mission in the southwestern Mangystau region, with the incident occurring following a &#8220;sudden deterioration in weather conditions and intensifying winds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to preliminary information, 19 servicemen were swept out to sea,&#8221; the statement said, noting that three servicemen were rescued and that search and rescue efforts for the remaining personnel are underway.<\/p>\n<p>A commission led by Defense Minister Dauren Kosanov was urgently deployed to the site to establish the circumstances behind the incident and coordinate search and rescue efforts, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further information regarding the progress of the search operation and the condition of the servicemen will be released as data is received and verified,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declared Sept. 25 the day of mourning in the country to honor the memory of the servicemen killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll among Kazakh servicemen swept out to sea during a naval military exercise in the Caspian Sea reached 12, the administration of the Caspian Mangystau Region of Kazakhstan said Thursday. &#8220;According to updated data, during the performance of a combat training task, due to a sharp deterioration in meteorological conditions and strengthening wind, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}