WORLD IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Ship Crash Toll on Danube Put at 207
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The interim government said that 207 Romanians were killed in September when a passenger ship sank after colliding with a Bulgarian tugboat on the Danube River. Deputy Foreign Minister Romulus Neagu said the accident is under investigation, the Rompres news agency reported. The Romanian vessel sank “in conditions of poor visibility,” the state news agency, tightly controlled by the authoritarian Ceausescu government, reported at the time.
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