An investigation has revealed the deaths of a Polish mom and her seven-year-old son after they fell off a ferry final week was not an accident.
The pair have been travelling from Sweden to Poland when the mom dived overboard in a frantic bid to save lots of her boy after he fell off the vessel into the icy Baltic Sea on Thursday.
They have been hauled from the water to a helicopter then transported individually to a Swedish hospital, however couldn’t be saved.
Oessur Jarleivson Hilduberg, head of the Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board, mentioned: « Our investigation confirmed fairly clearly that it was not an accident. »
Danish officers carried out the preliminary investigation because the ferry, Stena Spirit, was crusing beneath its flag – that means the vessel is beneath Denmark’s jurisdiction.
The investigation had collected information from video footage, footage and witnesses, Mr Hilduberg mentioned.
Swedish prosecutors on Friday mentioned the case was being investigated as a potential homicide.
The kid is assumed to have fallen from a peak of about 20m (65ft), in line with Swedish Maritime Administration spokesman Jonas Franzen.
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The Stena Spirit had departed from Karlskrona in southern Sweden, round 310 miles (500km) from the capital Stockholm.
It was halfway by way of its journey to Gdynia on the coast of Poland, about 279 miles (450km) north of Warsaw, when the incident occurred.
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