The 59-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for suspicion of murder, police said in North England after a container ship had crashed into a tanker oil tanker in the North Sea before, leaving that a crew member had disappeared and assumed he was dead.
The tank, Solong, hit a steam of the Immaculate, anchored oil tanker who wore a jet fuel and was then operated by the US Navy, the officials said. The episode happened on Monday morning from the coast of northeast England, setting up a series of explosions and piercing both vessels in flames.
One Solong crew member disappeared, and an extensive search was called on Monday night, the British Coast Guard said. Other crew members on both vessels were safely brought to the shore.
Humberside Police in England said UA statement that the criminal investigation of the cause of the collision began. Craig Nicholson, a detective chief supervisor, said the department afterwards “arrested a 59-year-old man on suspicion of killing the collision.”
It was unclear which relationship arrested man had to do any ship. In Britain, there are narrow legal limitations in what can be reported about the criminal case after being arrested, aimed at protecting the accused person’s right to a fair trial. Police said they were still working to establish a full circumstances of the collision, but by Tuesday afternoon, a fuller image of the event chain began to appear.
Mike Kane, a British Minister of Transport, said on Tuesday to Parliament that the Stena’s Immaculate Tanker was anchored about 13 nautical miles along the coast of England near the mouth of the Humber River when it was hit.
“I think there were a misdemeanor game of speculation; there is no evidence that would point out at the moment,” Mr. Kane said, adding that the British government was in contact with his American and Portuguese colleagues.
“Search and rescue operations for the missing sailor continued yesterday, but they were taken away yesterday night at a place where the chances of their survival, unfortunately, significantly reduced,” said Mr. Kane, adding: “Our work assumption is, very unfortunately, that the sailor has passed away.”
Tanker, owned by Crowley, a logistical company based in Florida, was charter on a short -term basis serve US government surgery.
While the fire on the stench of the Immaculate extinguished, the flame continued on Solonga on Tuesday. Ernst Russ, a shipping company based in Hamburg, which owns Solong, said on Tuesday that she had not carried any sodium cyanide, despite the initial reports, this was the case.
Mr. Kane noted in his statement to Parliament that he was still working to determine the burden on board Solong, but that “the measures and assets of the counter-memories are already in force, and both vessels are closely monitored because of structural integrity.”
British prime minister spokesman Keir Starmer said a branch for an investigation into marine accidents would conduct a preliminary assessment of the collision and its cause.
Stephen Castle contribute to reporting.
