Swedish emergency services responded to reports of screams from the water, after the British cargo ship Scot Carrier collided with the Danish ship Karin Hoej in the vicinity of kl. 3:30 p.m. to Monday.

Images from the site show that the Danish ship has capsized, and capsized at sea.

Swedish newspaper Express writes that rescue workers work under demanding conditions. Sjöräddningssällskapet told the newspapers that there was no longer any hope of finding anyone alive.

– There are two people who ended up at sea, and they have not been found, Victor Devinder of the main center of the Swedish Coast Guard told the newspaper.

Just after 4 pm report Aftonbladet that one person has been found dead on a Danish shipwreck. One person is still missing.

Johan Nilsson, operations manager at the Swedish salvage service, told Aftonbladet that the British vessel, 90 meters long, may have collided with a 55-meter Danish vessel:

– This is a bigger boat that goes on a smaller one. It immediately flipped over and lay on its side. The bigger boat then continued and drove straight across. It was very fast, he said.

The Scot Carrier came from the Latvian city of Salacgrīva and was en route to Montrose in Great Britain, while Karin Hoej was en route from Södertälje to Nykøbing Falster, the paper said.

Drunk driving investigation

The Swedish Coast Guard believes the accident may have been due to “gross negligence”, and will carry out a preliminary investigation, they said. in press release.

– There are suspicions of further offences, including drunk driving, Coast Guard investigative lead Jonatan Tholin said in his update.

Aftonbladet wrote that two people, a British and a Croatian national, had been arrested following the incident.

– We have positive results on our instruments indicating that one or more have been affected aboard British vessels, Valdemar Lindekrantz of the Swedish Coast Guard told the paper.