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Passenger Dies After Falling Overboard on MSC Cruise Through Norway's Deepest Fjord

Incident marks the second overboard death on the same ship within three months, prompting a 'suspicious' death investigation.

  • The man, in his late 50s, fell from the MSC Euribia around 2 a.m. while it sailed through the Sognefjord.
  • A rescue helicopter retrieved the man from the fjord's 4,300-foot-deep waters, but he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
  • Authorities are investigating the death as potentially accidental, criminal, or intentional.
  • This is the seventh overboard incident on an MSC cruise ship in less than seven months.
  • The ship continues its seven-day journey, scheduled to return to Kiel on Saturday.
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