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Aware: 2020-11-22 09:20
The Baltic Sea. Photo by Vladimir Ivanovo (VŽ)
Nearly 430 passengers and crew were forced to spend the night on board when the passenger ferry ran aground near the islands between Finland and Sweden on Saturday, the Finnish ferry company Viking Line and the Coast Guard said.
The Grace ferry, which runs between the Finnish port of Turku and the Swedish capital Stockholm, stopped at around 2 pm 15 minutes. local (and Lithuanian) time before stopping in Marianhamina, the capital of the Åland archipelago, the Finnish Coast Guard said.
The cause of the incident, according to the service, is not yet known, but there was a strong wind in the region on Saturday.
“It just came to our knowledge then [keleiviams] there is no immediate threat, ”the service said on Twitter.
A Viking Line spokeswoman told AFP there were 331 passengers and 98 crew on board.
“Passengers must spend the night on board and will be disembarked [sekmadienį]”She said.
“The condition of the ship is stable. On Sunday we will tell the passengers which ship will be able to return to Sweden and Finland.”
In September, another Viking Line ferry, the Amorella, set sail in shallow waters near the Åland Islands themselves, and its passengers were evacuated.
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