The killing took place in international waters, the ship being British, the British police are now on the ship investigating.
Queen Mary II was the largest cruise ship ever made when it was completed in 2003 and has room for 2,620 passengers and a crew of 1,253.
Eric Flounders, spokesperson for Cunard who owns the ship says a member of the crew, a 49 year old man, has been detained on board.The injured man, 40, also a member of the crew, had been transported by helicopter to a hospital in the Netherlands, where he later died, the ship continuing on to Bergen, Norway.
The man will stay on the ship until the British police can transport him to Britain.
So that's the huge ship outside my window...
Poor guy. Any word on the cause of the fight?
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Apparently the guy attacked his colleague with a hammer in the mess when the crew were having lunch.
ReplyDeleteThe seven or so British investigators who yesterday arrived in Bergen said it most likely would not be a complicated matter, seeing as they a hundred witnesses.
The difficulty will be finding out what possessed the man to attack his colleague in the first place, and why he did it in public.
The passengers were informed of the matter after the arrested man had been taken off the ship, which last night set the course further up the Norwegian coast.
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