Sweden on Monday arrested two people after a fatal early morning collision between a Danish and a British container vessel off the southern coast of Sweden, prosecutors said.
An investigation was opened into “aggravated drunkenness at sea,” “gross negligence in sea traffic” and “gross causing of death by negligence,” the Swedish Prosecution Service said in a statement.
One of those arrested was a British citizen born in 1991 and the other a Croatian citizen born in 1965, the agency said.
For hours, nine boats and a rescue helicopter scoured for two missing crew members following the early morning collision in the waters between
Two cargo ships have collided in the Baltic Sea between the town of Ystad in southern Sweden and the Danish island of Bornholm. According to the Swedish Maritime Administration, one of the ships is floating upside down.