Chinese rescue teams save a fourth person and recover 12 bodies as they continue searching for the missing crew members of an engineering ship that sank over the weekend with 30 people onboard.
Rescue teams searching for missing crew members of a Chinese engineering ship that sank over the weekend have saved a fourth person and recovered 12 bodies, Chinese maritime authorities have confirmed.The China-registered floating crane was involved in building several offshore wind farmsOfficials said the crew member rescued by a Chinese navy ship on Monday was in a stable condition.
The vessel then snapped into two and sank on Saturday during the storm, which had maximum sustained winds of 110 kilometres an hour and was upgraded to a typhoon before making landfall in Guangdong.Authorities said the vessel was close to the centre of the storm, making rescue operations difficult.The search continued on Monday, though Hong Kong authorities said the chances of rescuing the remaining crew members alive were slim.
China's first typhoon of the year, Chaba skirted Hong Kong but brought heavy rain and wind to southern provinces already water-logged from weeks of torrential rain and thunderstorms over the weekend. Elsewhere in China, eight people sheltering from a rainstorm in Shijiazhuang, the capital of the northern province of Hebei, were killed on Saturday when a decorative building structure fell from about 12 metres, the official Xinhua New Agency said.AP/ Reuters
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