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44 feared dead as two ships capsize in east China
Beijing, Oct 14: At least 44 people were feared dead when two cargo ships sank in the Bohai Straits on Sunday due to inclement weather and choppy seas, an official newspaper reported today.
Beijing, Oct 14: At least 44 people were feared dead when two cargo ships sank in the Bohai Straits on Sunday due to inclement weather and choppy seas, an official newspaper reported today.
Forty-four people are missing and presumed dead, the newspaper quoted officials as saying.
Search and rescue operations are still under way, Zhao Gejin, an official with the state administration of production safety said. In the first accident, a cargo vessel named "Huayuan Sheng 18" was hit on Sunday by strong winds west of Bohai Straits on its way to Tianjin from Fuzhou, capital city of east China's Fujian province.
Fifteen people aboard the ship went missing.
On the same evening, a similar tragedy struck the cargo vessel, "Shunda II," leaving 29 people missing when the ship went down. Authorities said the vessel encountered severe winds registering at scale 11 to 12, the strongest according to Chinese Meteorological Standards, which pushed a torrent of water onto the decks and into the cabin before the ship sank.
An official with China Marine Search and Rescue Centre said they had dispatched a rescue team to Bohai Straits to salvage the sunken ship and to find the missing people.
The official said rescue operations are being conducted by the centre in collaboration with local authorities as well as air forces. Bureau Report
Search and rescue operations are still under way, Zhao Gejin, an official with the state administration of production safety said. In the first accident, a cargo vessel named "Huayuan Sheng 18" was hit on Sunday by strong winds west of Bohai Straits on its way to Tianjin from Fuzhou, capital city of east China's Fujian province.
Fifteen people aboard the ship went missing.
On the same evening, a similar tragedy struck the cargo vessel, "Shunda II," leaving 29 people missing when the ship went down. Authorities said the vessel encountered severe winds registering at scale 11 to 12, the strongest according to Chinese Meteorological Standards, which pushed a torrent of water onto the decks and into the cabin before the ship sank.
An official with China Marine Search and Rescue Centre said they had dispatched a rescue team to Bohai Straits to salvage the sunken ship and to find the missing people.
The official said rescue operations are being conducted by the centre in collaboration with local authorities as well as air forces. Bureau Report