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A 59-year-old man has been arrested, on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, in connection with the collision yesterday between an oil tanker and container vessel in the UK’s North Sea.

One member of the box ship’s crew is still unaccounted for and has been presumed dead.

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  • Mike Wackett

    March 11, 2025 at 6:52 pm

    How do the BBC gets things so wrong! Picking up on a rumour that there were containers of sodium cyanide on board the feeder! That said once again nobody seems to know what was in the containers! Think MSC Napoli and back in the days the MV Cita that crashed and sunk on the Scily Isles (14 miles off course) when nobody was on the bridge. All sound familiar?

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