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Article: Rescue operation for 19 missing in East China Sea boat capsize halted
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 18, 2007
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Rescue operation for 19 missing in East China Sea boat capsize
halted
HANGZHOU, Dec. 18, (Xinhua) -- Rescue teams looking for 19 people
missing after a ship collision on Saturday, were called back on
Tuesday afternoon after a fruitless three-day search in the East
China Sea.
"We have decided to halt the rescue operation as experts said the
chance for the missing to survive in the such cold weather forsuch a
long time is almost impossible," said an official with Zhejiang
Provincial Maritime Affairs Bureau who declined to give his name.
However, the local government was organizing local fishermen with
their own boats to continue the search, the official said.
A Liberian-registered ship ...
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