Search underway for 7 missing after fishing boat sinks in E China

A fishing boat sank in seas off southeastern Zhejiang province in East China Saturday evening, with 11 people rescued and seven unaccounted for, CZTV.com, a local media website, reported on Sunday afternoon.

An emergency plan was triggered immediately and five public service vessels, as well as 20 shipping boats, are searching the sea at present.

The cause and further details about the 8 pm accident that sank the Zhejiaoyu 60038 is still under investigation.

Che Jun, Party head of the province, said full efforts should be made to search for the missing and ordered related governmental departments to investigate the case to discover as soon as possible why the boat sank to help raise the safety level of sea shipping.