COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Swedish media reported Tuesday that a British freighter didn’t noticed it had rammed a Danish freighter disconnected confederate Sweden, causing the smaller vas to capsize and leaving 1 idiosyncratic dormant and different missing.
The “Scot Carrier” lone stopped erstwhile it was ordered backmost by authorities, media said.
Two radical person been detained arsenic suspects. The British shipping institution said unit aboard the “Scot Carrier” were tested for drugs and intoxicant aft the collision and “two unit members exceeded the limit.” It was not wide whether they were the aforesaid crewmembers who were detained.
The pre-dawn collision with the Danish-flagged “Karin Hoej” happened Monday successful foggy weather. The Danish vessel capsized afloat and was near floating upside down.
Local rescue work operations manager Johan Nilsson told the regular Aftonbladet that “there are marks showing that the larger vessel ran into the smaller one, which rolled implicit ... capsized immediately.”
Scotline Marine Holdings Ltd, the proprietor and manager of the 2018-built “Scot Carrier,” said successful a connection that it has “a strict cause and intoxicant argumentation successful spot and ... a zero-tolerance for immoderate breaches that occur.”
Swedish prosecutors connected Monday opened a preliminary probe connected imaginable charges of gross negligence successful maritime postulation and “gross oversea drunkenness.” A British national calved successful 1991 and a Croatian calved successful 1965 were detained arsenic suspects successful the case. Their names were not released.
The capsized vas was towed person to onshore truthful divers from the Swedish Armed Forces and the Coast Guard, among others, could hunt it.