WORLD NEWS | Sweden rescues children and mother who jumped from Baltic ferry

STOCKHOLM, June 29 (Xinhua) — Swedish maritime authorities said on Thursday they had rescued a child who fell overboard from a passenger ship in the Baltic Sea, along with the child’s mother who jumped into the water desperately to save the 7-year-old. old.

Jonas Franzen, a spokesman for the Swedish Maritime Administration, said the mother and child were taken separately by helicopter to a hospital in Karlskrona in southern Sweden. It’s unclear what happened to them.

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The incident happened on a passenger ship bound for Karlskrona from the port in northern Poland.

“A child fell into the water and the mother decided to jump in,” Jonas Franzen, a spokesman for the Swedish Maritime Administration, told The Associated Press. He said the child fell from about 20 meters (65 feet) Fall from height.

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Ships and helicopters from Sweden and NATO forces in the region assisted in the rescue operation.

The Swedish news agency TT reported that the child was seven years old. Polish television station TVN reported that both were Polish citizens. (Associated Press)

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