2 more tugboats join effort to free ship
SUEZ, Egypt — Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the vessel may take even longer to free.
The massive Ever Given, a Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal.
The Dutch-flagged Alp Guard and the Italian-flagged Carlo Magno, called in to help tugboats already there, reached the Red Sea near the city of Suez early Sunday, satellite data from Marinetraffic.com showed. The tugboats will nudge the quartermile-long Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel and mud caked to its port side, said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which manages the Ever Given.
area. Authorities said four bodies were found Sunday in the flood’s aftermath.
Nashville received more than 7 inches of rain, the second-highest two-day rainfall total ever recorded, Mayor John Cooper said at a news conference Sunday.
Nashville Fire Chief William Swann said swift-water teams were placed on standby in anticipation of the storms. At least 130 people were rescued from cars, apartments and homes, while about 40 dogs were moved from a Nashville boarding kennel, Camp Bow Wow, to another location.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said three bodies were found after Seven Mile Creek flooded.
Drake said a 65-year-old man’s body was found on a golf course. Police said on Twitter earlier it’s believed the man tried to get out of a car that ran off a road into a culvert before being swept away by high water.
Baltimore County police said.
About 15 minutes later, police were called to an apartment complex five minutes away for a report of a fire and a person shot.
Police said a body was found in the parking lot of the Hartland Ridge complex along Shadetree Road and the gunshot wound appeared to be self-inflicted. One apartment in the complex was severely burned.
Police are still investigating whether the two incidents are connected.
Police initially said that an officer “encountered an armed citizen” and fatally shot him. Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate later said investigators found a firearm “in the vicinity” of the shooting but didn’t immediately have any evidence that it belonged to Lynch, the Virginianpilot reported.
Neudigate said the officer who killed Lynch was wearing a body camera but, “for unknown reasons,” it was not activated.
“We would like to provide the community answers. At this point, we do not have them,” the police chief said Saturday.
The officer who killed Lynch has been placed on administrative leave, police said. He has been with the department for five years and is assigned to its special operations division.