The mother of one of the Brits trapped on the top deck of a burning ship in the Adriatic Sea has told of her fears for his safety after she lost contact with him.
British woman Dotty Channing-Williams said her son Nicholas was aboard the Norman Atlantic with his fiancee Regina, and that she had spoken to him by telephone since the fire broke out, but that she had since lost contact with him.
“People in Greece are saying that their communications have been cut off, so as not to hamper rescue operations which I can fully understand,” she told Sky News.
“They’re keeping me updated via the news coming over the Greek television. But nevertheless it is very, very worrying and very scary.
“So I just hope that they will be able to get everybody off there as soon as possible.”
Briton Nick Channing-Williams with his fiancee Regina Theoffili.
She said she had spoken to officials at the Home Office but had not had any direct contact with those in charge of the rescue operation.
When she spoke to her son he had been standing on the ferry’s top deck for seven hours “in the rain and thunder and lightning”.
Italian ferry fire: Brit loses contact with her son onboard
