Divers brought up a body on Monday from the wreck of a tourist boat which sank l...
BUDAPEST - Divers brought up a body on Monday from the wreck of a tourist boat which sank last week in Budapest, and another body was pulled from the river 100 km downstream, identified by police as the eighth victim of the disaster.
South Korean and Hungarian divers worked as a team on Monday in an attempt to recover bodies from the wreck, the first day they have been able to approach it after currents and storm waters kept them away. Police said another body found earlier on Monday near a village 115 km downriver from the capital had been identified as the eighth victim of the disaster. Authorities were still working to identify the body pulled from the river in Budapest.
“We are cooperating with Korean colleagues; this is a joint operation now,” Janos Hajdu, the chief of Hungary’s TEK, told a news conference. “If we find bodies we will do everything to respect funerary aspects,” Hajdu said. Lifting the ship would be possible only once the waters subside enough for Hungary’s largest crane to fit under Budapest’s bridges and approach the site, he added.The Ukrainian captain of the Viking Sigyn cruise liner which collided with The Mermaid has been detained and faces a criminal investigation. He denies wrongdoing.
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