2023-10-24 14:40:39
At least One person has died and four others are missing after two cargo ships collided in the North Sea on Tuesday.off the coast of Germany, according to the German Central Maritime Emergency Command, which has confirmed that one of the ships, flying the Bahamian flag, was sailing from Hamburg to A Coruña.
The crash occurred at dawn, just over 20 kilometers from the island of Heligoland, and in addition to the ‘Polesie’, 190 meters long, the ‘Verity’, flying the British flag and measuring 91 meters in length, was involved. . This second ship traveled from Bremen to Immingham, in the United Kingdom.
The ‘Verity’ sank as a result of the impact and three people have been rescued from the water – one of them already dead – in the operation launched after the accident, in which air personnel also participated. There were seven crew members on board this ship, so four are still missing.
In the ‘Polesie’, which remains afloat, 22 people were traveling and all of them have emerged unharmedaccording to the official note, which confirms the closure of airspace within a radius of ten nautical miles so as not to hinder search operations in the area in search of the missing.
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