STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Rescuers battled stormy seas and driving snow in a hunt for a crew member of a Swedish cargo ship which sank in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, an emergency service official said.
Helicopters plucked 13 of the 14 Swedish and Filipino crew members from high waves after the 155-metre vessel, carrying containers of mixed cargo, sank between the islands of Oland and Gotland, a Swedish Sea Rescue Society spokesman said.
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