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.
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.
In the three days since the disaster, roiling floodwaters have prevented divers from reaching the wreck or recovering the rest of the bodies.
