DIVERS found a body after a collision yesterday between a cargo ship and a small barge on a canal in the central Netherlands in which the skipper of the barge went missing, police said.

Divers today recovered the body of the skipper of a Dutch passenger ferry who was killed when his vessel collided with a German freight ship on a busy waterway near Amsterdam, police said.

A passenger ferry has capsized and several people are believed to be in the water after the vessel was struck by a freight ship in a canal near Amsterdam today.

A freight ship has struck a passenger ferry in a canal near Amsterdam, the Dutch state broadcaster NOS said today.