Schoolboy killed falling from passenger ferry and mum dies jumping in after him
A YOUNG boy has died after he fell overboard off a passenger ferry in the Baltic Sea.
His Polish mother also perished while desperately trying to save her seven-year-old son as the ferry travelled from Sweden to Poland.Swedish authorities said that the child had fallen off the vessel and that the mother proceeded to jump overboard in an attempted rescue on Thursday.
The Swedish ferry, Stena Spirit, was in the Baltic midway through its journey to Gdynia in Poland from Karlskrona in Sweden when the incident occurred, rescue officials said on Thursday.
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