Latest reports suggest more than 10 people were killed and many more injured when New York’s Staten Island ferry crashed yesterday.
Authorities are reportedly investigating why the 100-metre boat crashed into a pier amid high winds and choppy waters in New York Harbour, including trying to establish whether the pilot was asleep at the wheel.
Latest reports suggest the pilot fled the scene and tried to kill himself. Police say he went back to his home, where he slit his wrists and tried to shoot himself but was recovered by emergency services and taken to hospital.
At a press conference, New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly said: “It is a terrible tragedy; people who were on their way home, all of a sudden taken from us.”
Ferry services were suspended after the crash but were due to resume in time for the Thursday morning rush hour.
