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Reuters

Estonia, Sweden and Finland will look into fresh evidence on the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which went down 26 years ago on Monday with the loss of 852 lives in Europe's worst peacetime maritime disaster since World War Two. The official investigation in 1997 concluded that the bow shield had failed, damaging the bow ramp and flooding the car deck. "Estonia, Finland and Sweden have agreed that verification of the new information presented in the documentary will be made," the foreign ministers of the three countries said in a joint statement on Monday.