Illegal transit ends in many deaths

FUZHOU: Local police in the country's eastern Fujian province are investigating a report of a capsized boat that allegedly killed dozens of people from the province who were trying to reach the United States illegally.

The accident happened when an illegal ship, carrying about 70 stowaways from Fujian, overturned at the Caribbean Sea near Haiti enroute to the US, the US-based China Press, a Chinese language newspaper, reported Sunday.

Dozens of people on board died, including more than 10 from Fujian's Langqi county and others from Changle, Lianjiang, Guantou and other counties in the province.