Collision with Danube River Cruise Ship Kills Two and Leaves Five Missing [Video]

Hungarian police are continuing to scour the Danube near Budapest after a river cruise ship and a small pleasure boat apparently collided overnight. They recovered two bodies from the river and are looking for five people who are reported missing while also interviewing the sole survivor.

The response began shortly before midnight on May 18 when an ambulance was called to a location approximately 30 miles north of Budapest after a man was found with injuries and bleeding on the side of the road. The emergency services determined he had been in a boating accident on the river and began a search for other victims and also the vessels involved in the incident.

Sunday morning they are reporting that the river cruise ship Heidelberg is being detained further along the river at the town of Komarom, nearly 50 miles from Budapest. The cruise ship did not stop after the collision …