Ferry with hundreds of passengers onboard runs aground

Ferry with hundreds of passengers onboard runs aground
Cruise ship Viking Grace, run aground with passengers on board, south of Mariehamn, Finland (Niclas Nordlund/Lehtikuva via AP)

A Baltic Sea ferry with 331 passengers and a crew of 98 has run aground in the Aland Islands archipelago between Finland and Sweden.

Finnish authorities said there are “no lives in immediate danger” and the vessel is not leaking.

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