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6 missing in ship collision
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-03 14:49
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FUZHOU: Six people are missing after their fishing boat sank in a collision with a cargo vessel in the East China Sea on Wednesday, rescuers said.
The accident occurred at about 10:35 am off the coast of Lianjiang county in Southeast China's Fujian province, a spokesman with the Fujian Provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Center said.
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At least eight ships and a helicopter had been dispatched to search for the missing people, he said.
The fishing boat was registered in Fujian and the cargo vessel registered in the neighboring Zhejiang province.
The cause of the collision was not immediately known.
