South Sinai Prosecution Counselor Mohammad Abdel Sallam ordered the captain and second officer of a Kuwaiti container ship to be remanded in custody for four days pending interrogations into the drowning of a 40-member crew in a fishing ship off Ras Ghareb coasts in the Egyptian territorial waters in the Red Sea.
The collision resulted in the death of 13 fishermen, the injury of 13 others and the disappearance of the rest.
The container ship captain and the second officer are facing charges of murder by mistake and slackening in saving the lives of Badr Al-Sallam fishing crew after the container collided with the ship.
Eyewitnesses who survived the accident asserted that the cause of the collision was due to over speed by the container ship in violation of the rules.