2023-09-26 12:05:05
Budapest
Ship accident with 28 dead – more than 5 years in prison for captain
In May 2019, there was a fatal shipping accident on the Danube in which 28 people lost their lives. Now the captain of the river cruiser has been convicted.
Published26. September 2023, 2:05 p.m
On May 29, 2019, the excursion ship “Hableany” and the river cruiser “Viking Sigyn” collided.
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26 South Korean passengers and two Hungarian crew members died. The captain of the river cruiser has now been sentenced to 5.5 years in prison.
Getty Images/Laszlo Balogh
The captain of the river cruiser “Viking Sigyn” has to go to prison for more than five years.
His ship collided with another ship in 2019, killing 28 people.
The prosecution and defense have announced an appeal once morest the verdict.
Four years following a shipwreck on the Danube with 28 dead A court in Budapest sentenced the captain of a river cruiser to five and a half years in prison. The Ukrainian had rammed a much smaller excursion boat with his ship on the Budapest section of the Danube. On Tuesday, the court considered the offense of negligently endangering shipping traffic to be proven. The verdict is not yet legally binding. Both the prosecution and the defense announced an appeal.
26 Korean tourists died
The river cruiser “Viking Sigyn” collided with the excursion ship “Hableany” (Nixe) on May 29, 2019. The smaller ship capsized and sank to the bottom of the Danube within a few seconds. 26 South Korean passengers and two Hungarian crew members died in the floods, and only seven South Koreans were rescued. A South Korean woman who was declared dead is missing.
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