The World - News from Sept. 27, 1989
The fire that killed two people and injured dozens aboard a North Sea passenger ferry apparently was deliberately set, Danish police said. The 600-foot Tor Scandinavia was en route from Goteborg, Sweden, to Harwich, England, with 650 passengers and crew when fire broke out Monday. It was extinguished in a few hours, and the ferry sailed to its home port in Esbjerg, Denmark. Police there said the quick spread of the fire from a hall with linen closets indicates that “it was helped and that it was deliberately set.”
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