A total of 154 passengers and 40 crew members were evacuated from the river cruise liner Britannia on the night to 22 June after the vessel had developed a leak, the Dutch municipality of Zutphen said on its website.

The passengers, who were Austrian and Dutch nationals, were taken to a discotheque and the vessel was moored at the Ijssselkade quay. Britannia belongs to Nicko Tours, a German river cruise specialist. The cause of the incident was not immediately known.

The ship was on its way from Deventher in the Netherlands to Cologne in Germany.