All passengers and crew accounted for after New Orleans boat crash in ‘miracle on the Mississippi’
All passengers have been accounted for after a cargo ship collided with a docked cruise ship.
Key points
- A freighter collided with a cruise ship carrying around 130 people in New Orleans, causing the paddlewheel vessel to capsize.
- The collision leaves 32 people in hospital with non-critical injuries, but no-one unaccounted for.
More than 30 people were hospitalized, but all passengers survived and were accounted for.
Thirty-two people were taken to local hospitals after the Atlantic Asphalt tanker struck American Cruise Lines’s American Heritage at about 12.30pm – but none of their injuries were considered critical, New Orleans’s mayor, Helena Moreno, said at a news conference.
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