A child who fell 65ft overboard from a passenger ferry – as well the child’s mother who jumped into the water in a desperate attempt to save the seven-year-old – have been airlifted to hospital after being rescued from the Baltic Sea
Mother and child were separately transported by helicopter to a hospital in Karlskrona in southern Sweden, Swedish Maritime Administration spokesman Jonas Franzen said.
The incident occurred on a passenger ferry heading from a port in northern Poland to Karlskrona. “A child fell into the water and the mother decided to jump in after,” Mr Franzen told the Associated Press.
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