Viking Cruise Ship Accident In Budapest

Seven people are confirmed dead in.

Viking cruise ship accident in budapest. The river cruise ship Viking Sigyn collided with a tourist boat carrying 33 South Koreans on the Danube River in Budapest Hungary leaving at least seven people dead. The Viking ship collided Wednesday evening with a much smaller sightseeing boat carrying 35 people most of them South Korean tourists in Budapest. Yuri Chaplinskys cruise ship lining the Viking Sigyn struck a smaller sized visitor watercraft the Mermaid under a bridge in the resources throughout downpour on May 29.

The closure of the waterway June 5-14 affected 25 scheduled cruise itineraries mainly between homeports Amsterdam Holland and Budapest. Ship collision - Captain of cruise ship remanded back into custody. All 27 targets were from the Mermaid which sank within secs of the collision.

The accident occurred at 905 PM on Wednesday when Hungarian sightseeing boat Hableány Mermaid collided with Viking Sigyn a large cruise ship belonging to a Swiss company. The accident resulted in shutting down to all shipping traffic a section of Main-Donau Kanal Main-Danube Canal aka Europa-Kanal. Police confirmed Thursday that 7 people are dead and another 21 are still missing.

The Viking Sigyn cruise ship hit the Mermaid after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May. BUDAPEST Hungary Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists causing it to sink quickly in the Danube River as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Budapest. The boat accident in May in Budapest killed 27 people mostly South Korean tourists.

The Viking cruise ship collided with an 89-ft 27-m long sightseeing boat Hableany translated Mermaid on Danube River near Budapests Parliament building. The heavy rainfall and the resulting strong. Seven people were rescued.

Hungarian for Mermaid was a 27-metre 89 ft river cruiser operated on the Danube river in Budapest HungaryOn a rainy night at 905 pm of 29 May 2019 the 135-metre 443 ft Viking Sigyn collided with Hableány from behind under the Margaret Bridge near the Parliament Building. At 2100 local time 29th May the Viking river ship Sigyn was in the vicinity of another vessel a Hungarian tourist ship when it was involved in an incident on the Danube River in Budapest. The Viking Sigyn cruise ship struck the Mermaid tour boat just after 2100 local time 1900 GMT on 29 May as both vessels passed under Budapests Margaret Bridge.