🧵 Saga file #42
Bulgaria drone attacks on ships
Oct 6, 5 PM ET to Oct 13, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 12outlets carried a part
- 🫏3 · 3 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 7 daysrunning so far
- 6 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
- 11people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 6, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 1.4 daysDrone attack hits two commercial vessels off Bulgaria
- Oct 13, 5 AM ET · on the front pages 13 hoursDrones strike ships in Black Sea, one sinks
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1. Drone attack hits two commercial vessels off Bulgaria
Oct 6, 5 PM ET · 8 outlets · on the front pages 1.4 days
“Ship sinks and crew missing after Black Sea drone attack” first: BBC
📺 BBC News 2 min · 🧶 retold by 11
2. Drones strike ships in Black Sea, one sinks
Oct 13, 5 AM ET · 8 outlets · on the front pages 13 hours · 🔴 now
“Drones hit ships in Black Sea, sinking 1 and prompting rescue operations, Bulgaria says” first: AP
📺 BBC News 3 min, CNN 44 s, Fox News 15 s · 📻 1 newscast
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- Russian drones attacked two merchant ships off the coast of Bulgaria, sinking one and disabling the other, sparking international condemnation and a search for the missing crew. told by 11 people, on “Drone attack hits two commercial vessels off Bulgaria”
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