A cruise ship of over 100 people was hit by an oil tanker on the banks of the Mississippi River. At least 32 people were hospitalized, without serious injuries, two operatives fell into the water during the rescue and images were recorded. What happened?
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Athe banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, “excited” this Friday, when an oil tanker hit a cruise ship with more than 100 people on board. There's no record of any fatalities. What happened?
The moment the collision occurred, which can be seen here, an immediate rescue operation followed, which resulted in no person reported missing. As the rescue took place, the images continued to be recorded – with the time when there were still people in the water to be seen in the gallery above.
Then a press conference was held, in which the mayor of New Orleans realized that there was 32 hospitalized but none of them had sustained serious injuries. “At this moment, based on the information we have, there is no one missing,” Helena Moreno added, saying it was “a miracle”.
“ The passengers began to disembark from the ship after the crash, but as it happened, the cruise began to sink and eventually fell and turned. That’s when this happened when we started having people in the water,” the mayor explained. In the images in the gallery above it is possible to see people already at this stage, wearing life jacket.
An investigation was opened to the accident, with the tanker apparently suffering “some kind of loss of control in the direction” of the vessel, according to what explained United States Coast Guard commander Melanie Burnham, adding, however, that the “exact reason” for this has not yet been known.
Firemen immediately came to the situation, using stairs from the pier to try to rescue people and other vessels that were in the vicinity also provided assistance to the situation, removing people from the water.
During operations, there were still at least two police officers who fell into the water, but who are “in good condition”, even though they were hospitalized.
Louisiana's governor, Jeff Landry, also said that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made any necessary assistance available. The governor reinforced the words of the mayor of New Orleans, pointing out that “it was a miracle in Mississippi” and also saying that the river in question “is not an easy river and can be challenging”, in the context of rescues.
Already on its social network, Truth Social, Trump thanks the U.S. Coast Guard for “incredible” work. “Incredibly, no one died by this collision,” he wrote.
See the images in the gallery above.