A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats is reportedly heading straight for Britain.
The cruise ship Lyubov Orlova has been floating around the North Atlantic since 2012, when it was cut adrift from Canada and left to rot.
According to the Daily Star, there are only thousands of disease-ridden rodents that are on the 40-year-old vessel.
No one knows where the ship is, but a desperate search is on for the Russian ship. The coastguards are worried that recent violent storms have pushed it thousands of miles, putting it on a collision course with the UK coastline, the report said.
According to the report, salvage hunters are also searching for the ship, as they want to break it up for the 600,000 pounds worth of scrap metal.
The Lyubov Orlova was due to be scrapped after rows over debts and unpaid crew, but the Canadian government dragged it out to sea and released her, the report added.
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