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Denmark charges UK seaman over deadly cargo ship collision

FILE - Personnel from the Swedish Coast Guard investigate the damaged ship Scot Carrier in the port of Ystad, Sweden, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. A 30-year-old British citizen who was the duty mate on a cargo ship that collided with another one off southern Sweden leaving two dead, was Tuesday, June 7, 2022 charged in Denmark with negligent manslaughter "in particularly aggravating circumstances" for having been intoxicated at the time of the collision. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP, File) FILE - Divers work on the capsized Danish cargo ship Karin Høj after it collided with British cargo vessel Scot Carrier in the Baltic Sea, between Ystad and Bornholm, Sweden, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. A 30-year-old British citizen who was the duty mate on a cargo ship that collided with another one off southern Sweden leaving two dead, was Tuesday, June 7, 2022 charged in Denmark with negligent manslaughter "in particularly aggravating circumstances" for having been intoxicated at the time of the collision. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP, File)
Denmark charges UK seaman over deadly cargo ship collision