ALBAWABA - A cruise ship and motorbike collision on the northern Danube led to the killing of at least two people while five others went missing, according to the Hungarian Police.
The police added that a man was found with a bleeding head village of Veroce, 55 kilometres north of the capital Budapest. Police were immediately dispatched to the area as the man was suspected to have been involved in a river accident.
As the search and rescue efforts were launched, a small boat was found and brought to the shore along with two bodies, a man and a woman.
Soma Csecsi, the police spokesperson, held a press conference to provide details to the public, saying: "Eight adults, five of whom -- three men and two women -- are still being actively searched for as missing".
Authorities have begun criminal procedures against an unknown perpetrator on suspicion of endangering water traffic, which resulted in many deaths, while the accident's cause remains unclear.
The fatal accident occurred five years after at least 27 people were killed in Budapest when a river cruise boat collided with a smaller tourist ferry, sinking it in seconds.
The tourist boat Hableany, carrying 35 mainly South Korean visitors, was overrun from behind by the considerably bigger cruise ship Viking Sigyn beneath Budapest's Margit Bridge in May 2019.
Last year, the Ukrainian captain of the Viking Sigyn was found guilty of negligence that resulted in a tragic mass catastrophe and sentenced to five years and six months in prison. He has appealed the verdict.
