Copenhagen - Up to seven people were feared drowned after a Polish yacht collided with a tanker and then sank off Denmark's north-west coast yesterday, Danish authorities said.
One of eight people aboard the yacht, a 19-year-old woman, was rescued while the bodies of two passengers were recovered and five were missing, the Danish maritime rescue centre (SOK) said. The 14-metre yacht with an all-Polish crew was sailing north and the 4,000-tonne Japanese-owned, Hong Kong-registered gas tanker was headed south to Rotterdam when they collided at 6 a.m. (5 a.m Irish time) in fair weather.