A Hungarian court began the trial on Wednesday of a Ukrainian boat captain invol...
Prosecutors and court officials are seen before a trial of the Ukrainian captain of a Swiss cruise liner, charged with gross negligence leading to mass casualties after his ship collided with a tourist boat on the river Danube last May, killing 28 people, Budapest, Hungary March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST - A Hungarian court began the trial on Wednesday of a Ukrainian boat captain involved in a crash on the Danube River in Budapest last year that killed 25 Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew, the worst accident in more than half a century on the river. The Mermaid boat sank in seconds in May 2019 after a large cruise liner hit it from behind under a bridge in the Hungarian capital during heavy rain. Seven survivors and 27 casualties were recovered from the Danube; one woman is still missing.
Prosecutors said the captain, 64-year-old Yuri Chaplinsky from Odessa, failed to pay sufficient attention and did not focus on steering the ship for several minutes in the evening hours of May 29, amid torrential rain and heavy flooding.
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