'We heard that these are not exercises. The launching of the lifeboat has begun.' A ferry has shared details of what happened when a baby and a mother reportedly fell 65 feet off the Stena Line ferry.
Once found, the 36-year-old mother and boy were transported separately by helicopter to a hospital in Karlskrona.
Police spokesperson Mariusz Ciarka told local media that it was impossible to save the lives of the two, both of whom wereHe said: ‘Unfortunately, in the morning we received information from the Swedish side that we have to pass on this terrible news to the family, because both the boy and the woman are dead.’
‘At the moment we have no information whether this was due to a malfunction of the ferry,’ Stena Line spokesperson Agnieszka Zembrzycka told TVN 24.
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