Search continues for missing tourists

SHANGHAI - Thirty-three Chinese tourists who visited the southern resort island of Jeju in South Korea were still missing on Monday, prompting the local police to say they might want to remain in the country illegally.

Police said that about 1,300 Chinese tourists visited the Jeju Island on Sunday on board the cruise ship Costa Classica. Forty-four of them, including 30 males and 14 females, failed to return to the ferry on time after taking a tour of the island.

Police said they have managed to locate 11 of them.