A Hong Kong passenger ferry boat on the HK-Macao route collided
with a Chinese mainland sight-seeing passenger boat in Zhuhai
waters yesterday. No injuries have been reported so far though the
mainland boat was seriously damaged and sunk.
According to local media, about 140 people on board the two
vessels are safe and the cause of the accident is under
investigation.
About 80 people were on board the mainland boat and some of them
jumped into the water with life vests when the accident happened on
Monday morning, and all of them were pulled from the sea by rescue
workers aboard over a dozen vessels.
Passengers on board of the Hong Kong ferry boat, which was
slightly damaged, returned to Hong Kong on another ferry boat.
The mainland boat, which is seriously damaged, has been
sinking.
(Xinhua News Agency June 20, 2006)
