{"id":26949,"date":"2019-05-31T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=26949"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:06:26","slug":"hungary-boat-crash-captain-of-vessel-involved-in-collision-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=26949","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Boat Crash: Captain Of Vessel Involved In Collision Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BUDAPEST, May 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) — <\/strong>The captain of a vessel that collided with a tour boat on the Danube river in Budapest, resulting in at least seven deaths, has been arrested, police say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 64-year-old Ukrainian national was held as a suspect over reckless misconduct in waterborne traffic leading to mass casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boat carrying South Korean tourists sank seven seconds after the collision during a rainstorm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopes have faded that any of the 21 people missing will be found alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A criminal investigation has been launched into the collision, a rare incident on the Danube where navigation is busy but generally safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven people rescued alive were suffering from hypothermia but stable, an ambulance spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witness saw people ‘screaming in the water’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCTV footage showed the boat that sank – Hableany, or Mermaid – being hit from behind by a larger tour boat – Viking Sigyn – near the Margit (Margaret) Bridge in central Budapest after 21:00 local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No-one on the Swiss-registered Viking Sigyn was injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hungarian police said the investigation yielded evidence that raised questions of personal responsibility so it questioned the captain – identified as Yuriy C., from Odessa – as a suspect and later decided to take him into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency crews found the wreckage of the Hableany, a double-decker river cruise boat built in 1949 in the former Soviet Union, on the riverbed near the Margaret Bridge and were preparing to lift it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty South Korean tourists and three tour guides, as well as two Hungarian crew, were on board the Hableany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the tourists were aged between 40 and 50 but the group also included a six-year-old child and a man in his 70s, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seven rescued alive included a 31-year-old passenger identified only by her surname Jung, who told Yonhap: “The current was so fast and people were floating away.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another survivor, a 32-year-old woman named as Yoon, said: “The boat flipped instantly and capsized.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rescue operation continued with boats, divers, spotlights, and radar scanning along the river, where the temperature of the water was between 10C and 12C (50F-54F).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seven confirmed victims were not wearing life jackets and three of them were found several kilometres from the site of the collision, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his government planned “to co-operate with the Hungarian government to thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident”. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BUDAPEST, May 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The captain of a vessel that collided with a tour boat on the Danube river in Budapest, resulting in at least seven deaths, has been arrested, police say. The 64-year-old Ukrainian national was held as a suspect over reckless misconduct in waterborne traffic leading to mass casualties. The boat carrying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}