11 Presumed Dead After Ships Collide in North Sea

The crew of a car carrier was forced to abandon ship in the icy waters of the North Sea after colliding with a container ship Wednesday evening off the Dutch coast. Rescue workers focused on recovery efforts Thursday morning, with six people still missing and five more already confirmed dead. For reasons of data protection and privacy, your IP address will only be stored if you are a registered user of Facebook and you are currently logged in to the service. For more detailed information, please click on the "i" symbol. Two ships collided in the North Sea off the Dutch coast Wednesday evening, leaving five crew members dead and another six missing, and one of the ships at the bottom of the sea. A car carrier named the Baltic Ace and the container ship Corvus J crashed about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the port of Rotterdam. The cause of the accident remains unknown, but gale-force winds and rain were predicted for the area Wednesday evening.

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