Bulgarian cruise ship crashes into wall on Danube in Austria, injuring 11

Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police said on March 30.

Some 160 passengers were aboard the ship travelling from Bavaria in Germany to the Austrian city of Linz, a spokesperson for the police in the nearby town of Eferding said, per Reuters.

The 11 injured were taken to hospital and the ship was able to continue onwards after the accident, the spokesperson said.