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China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-15 07:33
Tourist boat sinking claims 2
A 6-year-old boy and a man have died in hospital after they were trapped in a tourist boat that sank on the River Seine in a rare accident in the heart of Paris, police said yesterday.
The accident took place on Saturday night.
Ten other passengers on the boat jumped into the river before it sank and were quickly fished out. Divers pulled the child and man from inside the boat minutes after the sinking and rescuers tried to resuscitate them, but police said the attempts failed.
(China Daily 09/15/2008 page8)
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