COPENHAGEN: Two cargo ships collided in the Baltic Sea, leaving one person dead and another missing on Monday. One of the vessels capsized and was being towed toward a Swedish port, authorities said. Two suspects have been detained.
The maritime administration said it received a pre-dawn alarm on Monday that two cargo ships had collided south of Ystad in Sweden, close to the Danish island of Bornholm. The authority identified the ships as the Danish-flagged Karin Hoej and a British ship, the Scot Carrier. The Danish ship capsized fully and was floating upside down. A search operation for the missing crew members was carried out, but the Swedish Maritime Administration said it ended its operation without locating the pair. A body was later found inside the capsized Danish ship, it said. Despite fog in the area at the time, the cause of the collision was still unclear, the administration said.
Swedish prosecutors said a preliminary investigation on potential charges of gross negligence in maritime traffic and "gross sea drunkenness". Swedish prosecutors said two suspects, one British and one Croatian, had been take into custody.
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