Search for missing in boat accident continues
By Tan Zongyang in Beijing and Guo Anfei in Kunming | China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-05 07:55
Rescuers from China and Myanmar are still searching for 14 people missing in a boat accident that occurred on Sunday on the Lancang River near Southwest China's Yunnan province, local officials said.
The Mengla county government said in a statement on Tuesday that 14 people, including eight students from Myanmar, remain missing despite several rounds of searches that are still under way.
A ferry, registered in Myanmar, overturned after leaving port in a village in Myanmar on Sunday at noon and sank into the Lancang River, upstream of the Mekong River.
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