Captain of the cruise ship in custody

A passenger boat and a hotel ship collided in Budapest, on the Danube section at the Margit Bridge, at 21:05 on 29 May 2019 and the passenger boat sunk dramatically fast. According to the  passenger  list  available  to  the authorities, altogether  35  persons  were  on  board  of  the passenger boat: 2 Hungarian citizens (being the crew of the boat) and 33 South Korean citizens. Following the accident, 7 persons were rescued from the river and 7 persons were found dead by the rescue forces, all being citizens of the Republic of Korea. In  order  to examine  the  circumstances  of  the  accident,  the  Budapest  Police  Headquarters ordered an investigation toinvolve judicial nautical shipping experts. 

The investigators carried out scene investigation and seized  material evidence. Based on personal and material evidence gathered in the course of the investigation, a reasonable personal suspicion arises therefore the Ukrainian captain of the hotel ship was interrogated by the investigators as suspect of having committed the crime of endangering water traffic causing a fatal mass disaster. Following his interrogation, Yuriy C. (64) of Odessa was taken into custody and a suggestion was made to initiate his pre-trial detention.

The  professionals  participating  in  the  search  continuously  do  their  best  to  locate  all  missing persons in the river flowing at a speedof 9-11m/h and at the foreshore of the whole Hungarian section of the Danube south to the Chain Bridge.