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Passengers Evacuated From Stricken Ship
 
Rescue workers have completed the evacuation of hundreds of passengers from a German cruise ship which hit a sandbank in the Baltic Sea.
 
Passengers Evacuated From Stricken Ship
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The majority of the passengers are elderly Germans.

Coast guard spokeswoman Liene Ulbine said: "A total 662 passengers have been evacuated from the cruise ship Mona Lisa. There are no signs of distress."

"The passengers are getting off the rescue ships and will be heading to the town of Ventspils, where they will take a train to Riga."

They were set to spend Monday night in hotels in the Latvian capital before being flown to Frankfurt or Hamburg.



 
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