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News from the NOS•these days, 21:08•Modified now, 22:44
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Swedish and Finnish crisis services evacuated an unidentified number of people today on board from a ferry that broke out this night. The elderly and kids were being the initial to be taken off the ship, which experienced run out of present off the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland. Nobody was harm.
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Owing to the electricity outage, the anchor could no for a longer time be launched. The ferry of the Stena Lina transport company then drifted toward Gotland, but was equipped to restart a person of the engines late in the evening. The evacuation was subsequently suspended and the ferry did not have to be towed.
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The ferry is now on its own way to the southern Swedish city of Nynäshamn and will arrive tonight, Swedish media reviews.
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No accidents
The ferry was en route from Latvia to Sweden when a fireplace broke out on the deck of a car. The fire is considered to have broken out in a refrigerated truck. What triggered what transpired is beneath investigation.
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There were being 299 men and women on board, which includes 241 passengers. Some have been picked up by helicopters, according to Swedish media. Evacuations have been created more challenging by robust winds at sea, in accordance to the Swedish coast guard.
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As a precaution, 7 ships and a helicopter ended up despatched to the ferry. Passengers gathered on the higher deck can be noticed in the pics. The fire was extinguished by the crew at close to 4pm.
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