Updated: August 3, 2016 (Originally published August 1, 2016)
Some new video has emerged showing the moment a cargo ship slammed into a villa in Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait.
As we reported last year, the incident occurred July 21, 2015 when the 106m Sierra Leone-flagged Majed and Randy ran into the villa near Istanbul’s Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge after experiencing a rudder malfunction. Luckily there were no injuries reported.
Some photos of the aftermath are below:
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