Second ferry disaster
NZPA-Reuter Peking Seventy-one people are feared drowned after a ferry capsized in southwest China yesterday, the area’s second such disaster in five days. The official New China News Agency said the ferry collided with a barge on the upper reaches of the Yangtse River in Sichuan province and only 25 passengers were rescued. Last Thursday 178 people, died when a ferry sank in the Minjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtse also in Sichuan province.■
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Press, 27 July 1988, Page 11
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