A general view of the court room before a trial of the Ukrainian captain of a Swiss cruise liner, charged with gross negligence leading to mass casualties after his ship collided with a tourist boat on the river Danube last May, killing 28 people, Budapest, Hungary March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A boat captain involved in the worst accident in more than half a century on the Danube River went on trial in Hungary on Wednesday over the crash in Budapest that killed 25 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew last year.
The Mermaid boat sank after a large cruise liner hit it from behind under a bridge in the Hungarian capital during torrential rain on May 29. Seven survivors were rescued from the river, but one woman is still missing.
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