Across China: Jiangsu
China Daily | Updated: 2010-02-11 07:53
12 missing as ships collide
At least 12 people were missing when two cargo ships collided on the Yangtze River near Zhangjiagang, a port of Suzhou, information portal china.com.cn reported yesterday.
Pengxiang No 9, a cargo ship carrying a crew of 19, bumped into a vessel at 7:50 pm on Monday and sunk soon with all of its sailors falling overboard. Only two of them were rescued, with the rest still missing, the report said.
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