Captain arrested in North Sea ship crash with US flagged tanker is Russian national

LONDON, March 12 - The ship's skipper arrested successful transportation with a clang into a U.S. flagged tanker disconnected the seashore of England is simply a Russian national, the German institution which owns the vas said connected Wednesday.

The Solong crashed into the Stena Immaculate, a tanker carrying pitchy substance for the U.S. military, connected Monday. A time later, British constabulary arrested the Solong's skipper connected suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.

Police said the 59-year aged remained successful custody.

Hamburg-based proprietor Ernst Russ said the skipper of the Portuguese-flagged Solong was Russian, adding the remainder of the unit was a premix of Russian and Filipino nationals.

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The Stena Immaculate was astatine anchor erstwhile it was struck by the smaller Solong causing immense fires and explosions, leaving 1 unit subordinate missing presumed dead, and releasing substance into the sea, starring to fears astir the interaction connected the environment.

As speculation astir the origin of the collision mounts, the Telegraph paper reported that the Solong had failed steering-related information checks past year, citing a regular information cheque carried retired by Irish officials successful Dublin successful July.

(Reporting by Jonathan Saul and Muvija M, penning by Sarah Young, editing by Paul Sandle)

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