Court orders Danube cruise captain held as flood halts search near wreck

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Court orders Danube cruise captain held as flood halts search near wreck
Marton Dunai

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Hungarian court on Saturday 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 the disaster. A further 21 people — 19 Koreans and two Hungarians — are missing and presumed dead.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-accident/danube-cruise-captain-arrested-as-floods-halt-search-near-shipwreck-idUSKCN1T231D