One dead after ships collide in North Sea, says officials

• Fatal collision between British-flagged Verity and Bahamian Polesie off Germany’s North Sea coast.
• One crew member dead, four missing, and two rescued.
• Verity believed to have sunk; Polesie remains afloat.

A fatal collision occurred between two cargo ships off the North Sea coast of Germany, resulting in one fatality and four crew members currently missing, with two others having been rescued.

The incident involved the British-flagged Verity and the Bahamian Polesie, with the Verity believed to have sunk, while the Polesie remains afloat.

The Verity was en route from Bremen, Germany, to Immingham, UK, when the collision took place, while the Polesie had departed from Hamburg on its way to La Coruña, Spain.

This incident unfolded off the coast of Heligoland, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.

Search and rescue operations are ongoing, with assistance from the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS), a German navy helicopter, a water police boat, and a nearby cruise ship.

German Transport Minister Volker Wissing expressed gratitude for the rescue efforts and emphasized the commitment to finding the missing crew members, though the cause of the collision remains unclear.

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