Surveillance video emerges of the moment the Viking Sigyn cruise ship collides with the Mermaid tourist boat on Budapest's Danube River in Hungary, killing many people.
Surveillance camera footage shows the tragic moment that a cruise ship collided with a smaller tourist vessel on the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, in a fatal accident. The captain, a 64-year-old Ukrainian man, was arrested by Hungarian police for negligence.
"The whole thing happened very quickly" Clay Findley, an American tourist who was on the Viking Sigyn, told BBC News."I thought at first we were going to miss it, but the front of the Viking hit the back of that little boat…and then the hull popped up on the opposite side of the ship, just a few seconds later, and then it was down."
The search for survivors is ongoing, but hopes of finding any more survivors have faded. “I wouldn’t say there is no hope, rather that there is a minimal chance [of finding survivors],” Pal Gyorfi, a spokesman for the Hungarian national ambulance service, told the M1 state broadcaster, Reuters reported.
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