US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
    China / Society

    Capsized boat retrieved from Yangtze River, 22 dead

    (Xinhua/chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-01-17 11:15

    Capsized boat retrieved from Yangtze River, 22 dead

    Rescuers try to salvage a sunken tugboat on the Yangtze River near Jingjiang city, Jiangsu province, on Friday. Xu Xingkun / For China Daily

    NANJING - A total of 22 people were confirmed dead after a tugboat with 25 onboard sank on the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday afternoon, local authorities said Saturday.

    Rescuers found the body of the last missing person in the tug's cockpit at around 2 p.m. Saturday, according to the Jiangsu Maritime Safety Administration (JMSD).

    The boat, the "Wanshenzhou 67", was extracted from the depths on Saturday morning, 40 hours after it sunk in Fubei Channel, near Jingjiang City.

    On Saturday morning, local authorities published the names of those on board, including eight foreigners -- four Singaporeans, an Indonesian, a Malaysian, an Indian and a Japanese national. All 25 onboard were men, according to the JMSD.

    As of 11 a.m., 19 bodies have been spotted in nearby waters, with two already retrieved. Rescuers have saved three people, all of them Chinese, including an interpreter. All the eight foreigners were killed, the JMSD confirmed.

    Pictures on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, show family members crying desperately by the river. Many braved the cold on early Saturday morning to wait for news of their loved ones.

    Wang Zhenkai, one of the three rescued, told Xinhua reporters that he was the interpreter for a 60-year-old Japanese engineer.

    "Only the two of us were in the cockpit. We had just finished the load test of the boat's main engine when the vessel suddenly turned on its side. Water immediately flooded in," he said.

    Wang, from Yantai City, Shandong Province, was saved at 5:36 a.m. Friday after rescuers cut through the bottom of the boat. He has been hospitalized and is in stable condition.

    Wang survived by clinging to a hydraulic pump. He said he grabbed the Japanese engineer, but later the current broke their grasp as the boat started to sink.

    About 30 professional vessels, including patrol boats and tug boats, were dispatched during the rescue work, according to local authorities.

    Initial investigations found that the boat capsized due to "improper operations".

    According to the JMSD, the tugboat operators did not complete the compulsory procedures needed for trial operations, nor did they report the tug's conditions to authorities. The boat sank in the midst of a full circle swinging due to improper handling, the JMSD told Xinhua.

    The 30-meter-long boat, with a weight of 368 tonnes, was built by Anhui Bengbu Shenzhou Machinery Co. Ltd. in October.

     

    Highlights
    Hot Topics
    ...
    寂寞少妇做spa按摩无码| 亚洲乱码中文字幕综合| 天堂网在线最新版www中文网| 中文午夜乱理片无码| 亚洲中文字幕久久精品无码喷水 | 亚洲国产综合无码一区二区二三区| 中文字幕乱码免费看电影| 精品无码人妻一区二区三区不卡| 无码区日韩特区永久免费系列| 亚洲Av无码乱码在线znlu| 色综合久久无码中文字幕| 人妻少妇精品中文字幕av蜜桃| 精品久久久久久无码人妻热| 无码午夜成人1000部免费视频| 最近2019中文字幕大全第二页| 欧美乱人伦中文字幕在线| 丰满熟妇乱又伦在线无码视频| 亚洲AV无码一区二区三区牛牛| 中文字字幕在线中文无码| 国产精品午夜无码AV天美传媒| 人妻av无码一区二区三区| 亚洲av永久无码精品古装片| 最近免费2019中文字幕大全| 天堂а√中文最新版地址在线| 色吊丝中文字幕| 亚洲成av人片在线观看天堂无码 | 精品人妻无码一区二区色欲产成人 | 无码人妻精品一区二区在线视频| 亚洲中文字幕伊人久久无码| 婷婷中文娱乐网开心| а天堂8中文最新版在线官网| 中文字幕人妻无码一区二区三区| 国产精品无码一区二区在线观一| 亚洲精品无码不卡| 日韩欧国产精品一区综合无码| 国产精品xxxx国产喷水亚洲国产精品无码久久一区 | 免费A级毛片无码鲁大师| 国产午夜无码片免费| 免费无码国产V片在线观看| 无码精品人妻一区二区三区影院| 伊人久久大香线蕉无码麻豆 |