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Hundreds of rescue workers try to help on the banks of Danube River in downtown Budapest Wednesday. A river boat used for tourism capsized in the Hungarian capital with dozens of people on board, and a rescue effort was underway as three people died and 16 others were missing. | AFP-JIJI
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Three reported dead, 16 missing after Hungarian river tour boat capsizes on Danube
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BUDAPEST - At least three people are reported dead and 16 are missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday with dozens of people on board, and a rescue effort was underway, state news agency MTI and other media reported.
The boat was moored near the Hungarian parliament building and reportedly was hit by another tourist vessel, then turned over on the river, which has been flooding with strong currents while a rainstorm also enveloped Budapest.
Reuters could not immediately verify the information about the victims.
MTI said the boat carried 34 people, including crew, mostly Asian tourists. State television said there were 32 tourists and two crew on board.
A police spokeswoman and the disaster unit’s spokesman could not immediately comment.
The news web site Index.hu cited the boat’s owner as reporting that the boat, called the Mermaid, had sunk.
Rescue efforts were underway with more than a dozen vehicles visible several hundred meters downstream from the site of the accident.
Eighteen people were accounted for, with three dead and 16 missing, state media reported, citing authorities.
At least one tourist had to be revived, the National Ambulance Service told state news agency MTI.
Television footage shows the Danube bank closed off by police on the Pest bank, directly across from the World Heritage site of Buda Castle.
Police ordered all shipping to stop on the Danube at central Budapest, it said in a statement.
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7 killed as Hungarian boat carrying South Korean tourists capsizes on Danube
Hundreds of rescue workers try to help at the bank of Danube River at Budapest downtown. (GERGELY BESENYEI/AFP)
30 May 2019 06:15AM (Updated: 30 May 2019 08:33AM)
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BUDAPEST: At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen were missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday (May 29), police and ambulance said.
The boat was reportedly hit by another tourist vessel near the Hungarian parliament building, then turned over on the river, which has been flooding, with very strong currents, while a rainstorm enveloped Budapest.
Mihaly Toth, a spokesman of the boat's owner, told state television that the boat - the Mermaid - had sunk.
A massive rescue effort was under way with boats, divers, spotlights, and radar scanning along the river several kilometres downstream.
Police said the boat had been carrying 33 South Korean tourists plus a crew of two. A state media reporter cited a South Korean embassy official as saying the passengers included children. Journalists at the scene said they saw children's ambulances on the riverbank.
Rescue boat on the Danube river after a tourist boat capsized in Hungary on May 29, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
An Ambulance spokesman told state television that 14 people had been pulled out of the water so far. Seven of them have died, with the other seven suffering from hypothermia but stable. It was not immediately clear exactly how many of the remaining 21 people were still missing.
Dozens of emergency vehicles were visible on a stretch several kilometres downstream from the site of the accident, which happened shortly after 9pm (3am Singapore time on Thursday).
The hours that have passed since the accident make it less likely that new survivors will be found in the central Budapest area, as the strong currents have carried people far downstream, emergency rescue chiefs told state media.
A rescue boat on the Danube river after a tourist boat capsized in Hungary on May 29, 2019. (Photo: Reuuters/Bernadett Szabo)
The National Ambulance Service was conducting searches on along stretch downstream from Budapest and on alert on the entire Danube stretch south of Budapest in Hungary, where all boat traffic has been halted.
Television footage showed the bank of the Danube closed off by police on the Pest side, across from the World Heritage site of Buda Castle.
The Danube's flooding and currents made rescue efforts extremely difficult, a rescue diver told the state broadcaster, adding that the waters of the Danube were only about 10-12 degrees Celsius.
The boat was a 27-metre double-decker river cruise boat that can hold up to 60 people and was equipped with a 150-horsepower engine, its owner, Panorama Deck Ltd., told state media.
A shipping expert told state television that it was likely that the pleasure boat had collided with a very large vessel that had sunk it very quickly. The hull is yet to be found on the riverbed.
"We are mobilising every resource we have to protect human lives," they added.
The Mermaid had been in their fleet since 2003 and received regular maintenance, they said
Source: Reuters/de
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Three reported dead, 16 missing after Hungarian river tour boat capsizes on Danube
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BUDAPEST - At least three people are reported dead and 16 are missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday with dozens of people on board, and a rescue effort was underway, state news agency MTI and other media reported.
The boat was moored near the Hungarian parliament building and reportedly was hit by another tourist vessel, then turned over on the river, which has been flooding with strong currents while a rainstorm also enveloped Budapest.
Reuters could not immediately verify the information about the victims.
MTI said the boat carried 34 people, including crew, mostly Asian tourists. State television said there were 32 tourists and two crew on board.
A police spokeswoman and the disaster unit’s spokesman could not immediately comment.
The news web site Index.hu cited the boat’s owner as reporting that the boat, called the Mermaid, had sunk.
Rescue efforts were underway with more than a dozen vehicles visible several hundred meters downstream from the site of the accident.
Eighteen people were accounted for, with three dead and 16 missing, state media reported, citing authorities.
At least one tourist had to be revived, the National Ambulance Service told state news agency MTI.
Television footage shows the Danube bank closed off by police on the Pest bank, directly across from the World Heritage site of Buda Castle.
Police ordered all shipping to stop on the Danube at central Budapest, it said in a statement.
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7 killed as Hungarian boat carrying South Korean tourists capsizes on Danube
Hundreds of rescue workers try to help at the bank of Danube River at Budapest downtown. (GERGELY BESENYEI/AFP)
30 May 2019 06:15AM (Updated: 30 May 2019 08:33AM)
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BUDAPEST: At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen were missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday (May 29), police and ambulance said.
The boat was reportedly hit by another tourist vessel near the Hungarian parliament building, then turned over on the river, which has been flooding, with very strong currents, while a rainstorm enveloped Budapest.
Mihaly Toth, a spokesman of the boat's owner, told state television that the boat - the Mermaid - had sunk.
A massive rescue effort was under way with boats, divers, spotlights, and radar scanning along the river several kilometres downstream.
Police said the boat had been carrying 33 South Korean tourists plus a crew of two. A state media reporter cited a South Korean embassy official as saying the passengers included children. Journalists at the scene said they saw children's ambulances on the riverbank.
Rescue boat on the Danube river after a tourist boat capsized in Hungary on May 29, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
An Ambulance spokesman told state television that 14 people had been pulled out of the water so far. Seven of them have died, with the other seven suffering from hypothermia but stable. It was not immediately clear exactly how many of the remaining 21 people were still missing.
Dozens of emergency vehicles were visible on a stretch several kilometres downstream from the site of the accident, which happened shortly after 9pm (3am Singapore time on Thursday).
The hours that have passed since the accident make it less likely that new survivors will be found in the central Budapest area, as the strong currents have carried people far downstream, emergency rescue chiefs told state media.
A rescue boat on the Danube river after a tourist boat capsized in Hungary on May 29, 2019. (Photo: Reuuters/Bernadett Szabo)
The National Ambulance Service was conducting searches on along stretch downstream from Budapest and on alert on the entire Danube stretch south of Budapest in Hungary, where all boat traffic has been halted.
Television footage showed the bank of the Danube closed off by police on the Pest side, across from the World Heritage site of Buda Castle.
The Danube's flooding and currents made rescue efforts extremely difficult, a rescue diver told the state broadcaster, adding that the waters of the Danube were only about 10-12 degrees Celsius.
The boat was a 27-metre double-decker river cruise boat that can hold up to 60 people and was equipped with a 150-horsepower engine, its owner, Panorama Deck Ltd., told state media.
A shipping expert told state television that it was likely that the pleasure boat had collided with a very large vessel that had sunk it very quickly. The hull is yet to be found on the riverbed.
"We are mobilising every resource we have to protect human lives," they added.
The Mermaid had been in their fleet since 2003 and received regular maintenance, they said
Source: Reuters/de
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