12 feared dead in Yangtze River shipwreck

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-09 09:38
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SUZHOU: Twelve people were feared dead after their ship sank in the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway, Monday evening, local maritime authorities in the eastern Jiangsu Province said.

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"Pengxiang 9" registered in the northern port city of Tianjin, sank in the Zhangjiagang section of the Yangtze River at 7:25 pm, after a collision with motor vessel "Jintai 618", a spokesman with the maritime rescue center of Zhangjiagang City confirmed.

Fourteen people were on board "Pengxiang 9", of whom only two were rescued Monday night.

Maritime authorities imposed a traffic ban in the section and searched for the missing through the night. But none of the missing people had been found as of 9 am Tuesday.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.
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