A 59 -year -old man has been arrested on Tuesday accused of Homicide for severe negligence In the collision between an oil tanker and a freighter in the North Sea of this Monday, as reported by the Humberside police and collects the AFP news agency.
«After the investigations, we have arrested A 59 -year -old man Under suspicion of involuntary homicide due to serious negligence in relation to collision ”, in which a person is missing and, according to the British government, would have died, the police announced in a statement.
Superintendent Craig Nicholson, responsible for the investigation, explained that They will continue “speaking with all those involved to determine the circumstances of the incident ». In this sense, he said that “extensive work” has already been done.
The arrest has been confirmed once the search operations to locate a crewman of the freighter who disappeared after the impact has been completed. The Secretary of State responsible for maritime traffic, Mike Kane, has confirmed before the House of Commons that the authorities They already assume at this point that he has died.
The company that owns the load ‘Solong’, the German firm Ernst Russ, has offered to collaborate “fully” with the investigations in progresswithout any of the parties involved having been able to determine for now what could happen.
An American ship crew that suffered the impact, the ‘Stena Immaculate’, said in statements to the CBS News chain that the ‘Solong’ “It appeared out of nowhere” and did not stop at first after the impact. It could be evacuated with other colleagues in a process that lasted about half an hour.
For his part, a Downing Street spokesman has wanted to move away the hypothesis that it is an intentional act. «It does not seem that there is any indication of criminal act At the moment, ”he said, according to the BBC chain.
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