Boy, 7, dies after fall overboard from passenger ferry as mum jumped in to save him


A young 7-year-old boy tragically died after he fell overboard off a ferry. His mother also died after diving into the Baltic sea after him in hopes of saving her child.

Lars Blom, chief of rescue operations at the Swedish Maritime Administration rescue centre, said: “First we received a report that one person had fallen overboard, then it turned out to be two.”


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