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Thursday 23 May 2013

Crew arrested in Hong Kong ferry crash

Police arrested six crew of the two ships, one a passenger ferry and the other a private pleasure cruiser.

AT LEAST 37 people have died in the worst accident in Hong Kong's Lamma harbour in more than four decades, after two ferries collided, throwing more than 120 people into the sea.

Police arrested six crew of the two ships, one a passenger ferry and the other a private pleasure cruiser.

Lai Tung-kwok, Hong Kong's security minister, said they were being investigated for "endangering people's lives at sea" in the Monday night crash. (© Daily Telegraph, London)

Irish Independent

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