German barge sank after bumping into Danube bridge

The German Antonia cargo barge bumped into a Danube bridge and sank near Palánka with more than a thousand tonnes of fertiliser on board.

According to telex.hu, local media outlets said no trace of the fertiliser was found in the Danube after the accident. Authorities managed to take the wreck out from the river, but the Serbian-Croatian border crossing was closed to traffic.

The media did not share the kind of fertiliser the German ship carried. Experts believe it contained ammonia. If that is true, pathogens might proliferate in the region, resulting in the death of fish and other animals in the river.

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