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Laura Zhou

Two Chinese fisherman were killed and 17 missing after their fishing boat collided with a foreign vessel and sank in the East China Sea early Saturday morning.
The Chinese navy is still looking for the missing , according to official news portal chinanews.com.
The fishing boat, Lu Rong Yu 58398 from Shandong province, had 19 people on board when the accident happened at 3:40 am yesterday, state-owned Xinhua cited sources from headquarters of the East Sea Fleet as saying.
Two of them had been rescued by fishing boats nearby, but died later at hospital.
Xinhua didn’t elaborate details of which foreign country was involved, but said that a rescue centre in Ningbo in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, where the East Sea Fleet is based, received an accident report at around 6am and two naval vessels were quickly deployed to the waters for rescue work.
Another two vessels arrived three hours later, and another five vessels were expected to join, it said.
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Maritime Search and Rescue Centre of Zhejiang said later that the Chinese fishing boat was in collision with a freighter “Catalina” from Malta on the waters about 80 nautical miles from Ningbo.
The freighter, which is 225 metres long with a gross tonnage of 40,485 tons, allegedly left the scene after the accident and headed southwest.
Maritime authorities in Fujian province have been alerted for further cooperation in investigations, according to People’s Daily.
Naval law-enforcement vessels, as well as rescue ships and searching helicopters have been sent for rescues, while other fishing boats on the waters were also deployed to help, it said.
However, rescue operations were hampered as low visibility fell to only 200 to 300 metres with strong winds on the waters, the report said.
Last year, a Chinese fishing boat from Hebei province sank in the East China Sea after colliding with a South Korean merchant ship. Three fishermen were rescued while ten went missing.


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The boat sank in the East China Sea. Photo: CCTV News

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The fishing boat from Shandong province hit a freighter ‘Catalina’ from Malta before sinking
