Fire breaks out aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ship

Published May 27, 2013 4:00am ET



BALTIMORE (AP) — Royal Caribbean says a fire that broke out aboard a ship has forced it to cancel the rest of the cruise and that more than 2,000 passengers will be flown back to Baltimore from the Bahamas.

The cruise line says the fire that began at 2:50 a.m. Monday was extinguished about two hours later with no injuries reported. A cause wasn’t immediately known.

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