Appeal for volunteers to search for man’s body after ferry plunge

GARDAÍ are appealing for volunteers to help them search for a missing Polish man who is presumed to have drowned following an accident on a ferry.

Krystian Mielnik, aged 28, was a passenger in a Volkswagen Polo which plunged off a cross-river ferry in Cork harbour last Sunday evening. The driver of the car, a 32-year-old Polish man, was rescued by a local pensioner but, despite searches on the shoreline and underwater, there is still no sign of Mr Mielnik.

Superintendent Pat Sheahan, who is leading the Garda investigation, has appealed for volunteers to help gardaí in the search.