S. Korean emergency response team returns home after wrapping up rescue efforts in Budapest
- 5 years ago
Two months have passed since the deadly boat sinking in Budapest, Hungary.
After wrapping up their mission to search for the victims,... South Korean recovery workers have now returned home.
Our Park Hee-jun tells us more.
The South Korean emergency response team has returned home after wrapping up their rescue operations in Hungary,... where they were searching for the victims of the tragic boat accident on the Danube.
The twelve rescuers of the second division arrived at Incheon International Airport on Tuesday.
They were dispatched to the site on June 24th,... and conducted a two-month search for the victims of the tragedy in May,... that left 25 Koreans dead and one missing.
The Hungarian team will continue their search for the one South Korean still unaccounted for,... until August 19.
And when that's concluded,... the Hungarian police will continue operations around the site at a "normal level".
Meanwhile, Hungary's top court has made a non-binding ruling that the decisions by lower courts to release on bail the captain of the cruise ship involved in the crash... were unlawful, and the courts had no grounds to free him on bail.
The captain, identified only as Yuriy C., is the Ukrainian captain of Viking Sigyn, which collided with the sightseeing boat carrying the South Koreans.
The Kuria acknowledged that the prosecutors' arguments on the risks of flight or evidence tampering were justifiable.
This could lead to a new motion by prosecutors to detain him.
The captain is currently back in police custody on separate suspicions.
According to a statement from Budapest police on Monday, local time,... he's being interrogated over suspicions that he failed to provide assistance after the tragedy.
But the police can only hold him for up to 72 hours unless he is charged.
The captain was released on June 13 with bail set at 52-thousand U.S. dollars.
He was also banned from leaving the country,... and required to wear an electronic tracking device and meet with investigators twice a week.
Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.
After wrapping up their mission to search for the victims,... South Korean recovery workers have now returned home.
Our Park Hee-jun tells us more.
The South Korean emergency response team has returned home after wrapping up their rescue operations in Hungary,... where they were searching for the victims of the tragic boat accident on the Danube.
The twelve rescuers of the second division arrived at Incheon International Airport on Tuesday.
They were dispatched to the site on June 24th,... and conducted a two-month search for the victims of the tragedy in May,... that left 25 Koreans dead and one missing.
The Hungarian team will continue their search for the one South Korean still unaccounted for,... until August 19.
And when that's concluded,... the Hungarian police will continue operations around the site at a "normal level".
Meanwhile, Hungary's top court has made a non-binding ruling that the decisions by lower courts to release on bail the captain of the cruise ship involved in the crash... were unlawful, and the courts had no grounds to free him on bail.
The captain, identified only as Yuriy C., is the Ukrainian captain of Viking Sigyn, which collided with the sightseeing boat carrying the South Koreans.
The Kuria acknowledged that the prosecutors' arguments on the risks of flight or evidence tampering were justifiable.
This could lead to a new motion by prosecutors to detain him.
The captain is currently back in police custody on separate suspicions.
According to a statement from Budapest police on Monday, local time,... he's being interrogated over suspicions that he failed to provide assistance after the tragedy.
But the police can only hold him for up to 72 hours unless he is charged.
The captain was released on June 13 with bail set at 52-thousand U.S. dollars.
He was also banned from leaving the country,... and required to wear an electronic tracking device and meet with investigators twice a week.
Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.