Cargo ship capsizes off Vietnam's HCM City, 5 missing
Xinhua, October 31, 2015 Adjust font size:
Five sailors were missing after a Vietnamese cargo ship capsized off Ho Chi Minh City coast Friday night, local media reported.
By Saturday morning, 11 sailors of Hoang Phuc 18 cargo ship, which capsized some 7 nautical miles from the coast of the city's Can Gio rural district, had been rescued, online newspaper Dan Tri (People's Intellectual Standard) reported.
Local frogmen were trying to extricate sailors still trapped inside the hull, but strong winds were hampering their efforts.
The 2.000-ton ship sailed from the southern Dong Nai province on Wednesday.
Strong winds drove three excavators and trucks loaded on the ship to its starboard before a fierce wave made it capsize, local online newspaper VnExpress reported.
At least two missing sailors were believed to be still alive, VnExpress quoted a rescue official as saying. Enditem