The under-arrest captain of a container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea is Russian, the vessel’s owner has said.
Solong struck the Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday morning.
A spokesman for shipping company Ernst Russ, which owns Solong, said: “The captain is a Russian national.”
The 59-year was arrested by Humberside Police on Tuesday on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
The force said on Wednesday morning the suspect “remains in our custody”.
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