One person has died and four are missing from the crew of a cargo ship that sank after colliding with another vessel in the North Sea, German authorities said on Tuesday.
Two further crew members from the ship were rescued after the collision with a second cargo vessel early on Tuesday, German Sea Rescue Society spokesman Christian Stipeldey said.
The other ship was the Polesie, under a Bahamas flag and travelling from Hamburg to La Coruna in Spain. "My thoughts are with the crew members, their relatives and the rescue teams who have been in action since early this morning." "We will not stop the search and rescue operation as long as there is still a small chance of finding survivors," DGzRS spokesman Stipeldey said.Krzysztof Gogol, a spokesman for Polsteam, confirmed there were 22 crew members on board and said they were uninjured and in"good physical condition".
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