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Ship collision – Hungarian and South Korean ministers at disaster site
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Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha visited the site of Wednesday’s ship collision on the Danube in central Budapest, on Friday.
In the incident, a small sight-seeing ship carrying South Korean tourists collided with a large cruiser and sank. At least seven people died and 21 other have been reported missing.
The two foreign ministers were accompanied by Hungarian government officials, leaders of the disaster management authority, and South Korean diplomats.
For that matter, the Ukrainian captain of a cruise ship which collided with a sightseeing boat was detained after he was questioned as a suspect, police said late on Thursday.
Following an on-site inspection of the cruise ship, investigators working in cooperation with nautical experts seized evidence, police said.
The 64 year-old captain of the Viking Sigyn cruiser was questioned under suspicion of causing the mass disaster and was detained, the statement added.