Cruise ship captain ‘not concentrating before fatal Danube River crash’

The captain of a river cruise ship was not concentrating on his steering duties for at least five minutes as it collided with a sightseeing boat in Budapest last summer, Hungarian prosecutors have said at the opening of his trial. Twenty-seven people, mostly tourists from South Korea, died in the May collision on the Danube River. The Ukrainian captain, identified during the court session as Yuriy Chaplinsky, has been charged by prosecutors with negligent endangerment of water traffic leading to a fatal mass catastrophe and 35 counts of failing to give assistance. Chaplinsky, who has denied...