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Article: Cargo ship crew members detained over collision
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- December 26, 2002
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Several crew members of a roll-on roll-off cargo ship have been
detained in relation to last week's fatal collision with a ferry in
Southwest China.
A preliminary investigation by the State Council held the crew
members mainly responsible for the December 18 incident.
Eight of the 47 people on board the ferry died when the vessel
sank in the Yangtze River's Chongqing section.
Only seven people were saved and 32 were still missing as of
yesterday.
Largely because of its much bigger mass and volume, the ro-ro ship
remained almost intact.
Zhang Changbao, a publicity officer with the Changshou district
government of Chongqing Municipality, yesterday said some ro-ro crew
members are accused of ...