A Hungarian court has ordered the captain of a cruise liner that crashed into a pleasure boat on the Danube to be held pending a criminal investigation into a disaster believed to have killed 28 people, nearly all of them South Korean tourists.
The Viking Sigyn cruise liner struck a smaller boat, the Mermaid, in heavy rain on Wednesday.
The smaller vessel, which was carrying a group of South Koreans on a pleasure cruise, capsized and sank in the worst accident on the Danube in more than half a century.
Seven Koreans were rescued alive and seven bodies recovered on the night of …read more
Source: Gulf times
