Two dead and 17 fishermen missing in East China Sea vessel collision
The fishing boat from Shandong province hit a freighter ‘Catalina’ from Malta before sinking
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.
