Two fishermen remain missing after a fishing boat sank early on
Monday in the Beibu Gulf, located in the northern part of the South
China Sea, the provincial maritime affairs bureau confirmed on
Tuesday.
The boat, carrying 10 people from southeast China's Fujian
Province, went down at 5:30 a.m. about 26 nautical miles west of
the southernmost island province of Hainan. Eight people were saved
by passing fishing boats.
The maritime affairs bureau sent a rescue vessel and a
helicopter to the site on Monday morning to search for the
missing.
The search was continuing on Tuesday and the cause of the
accident was under investigation.
(Xinhua News Agency, December 4, 2007)