At least seven people have been killed and 21 are missing after Viking River Cruises’ 135 metre Viking Sigyn collided with a Hungarian excursion vessel on the River Danube in Budapest on Thursday evening, media reports say.
The excursion vessels had 35 people on board, of whom 33 were from South Korea, when it collided with the much larger vessel near the Parliament building in the Hungarian capital.
Video footage on Reuters' website shows the smaller vessel being pushed under a bridge by Viking Sigyn. Reports say that the excursion vessel capsized and went down in a matter of seconds after the collision.
The wreck has been found a few hundred metres from the berth that the vessel used, but hopes of finding more survivors are fading rapidly. The currents were very strong following heavy rain that had raised water levels and a thunderstorm was about to break out at the time of the accident, reports say.