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The Panama-registered oil tanker is seen on fire in waters about 160 sea miles east of the Yangtze River's estuary , Jan. 7, 2018. Thirty-two crew members, including 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, have gone missing after two vessels collided off China's east coast on Saturday evening, China's Ministry of Transport said Sunday. (Xinhua) A Chinese vessel (R) is dispatched to rescue crew members after a Panama-registered oil tanker and a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter collided in waters about 160 sea miles east of the Yangtze River's estuary, Jan. 7, 2018. Thirty-two crew members , including 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, have gone missing after two vessels collided off China's east coast on Saturday evening, China's Ministry of Transport said Sunday. (Xinhua)
BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-two crew members, including 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, have gone missing after two vessels collided off China's east coast Saturday evening, China's Ministry of Transport said Sunday.


The collision , between a Panama-registered oil tanker and a Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter, occurred at around 8 p.m. Saturday in waters about 160 sea miles east of the Yangtze River's estuary, the ministry said.


The 32 missing crew members were all from the oil tanker, which caught fire and tilted toward the right side after the collision.


All 21 crew members on the bulk freighter -- all Chinese nationals -- have been rescued, according to the ministry.


The 274-meter-long oil tanker SANCHI, owned by an Iranian shipping company and with 136,000 tonnes of condensate oil on board , was traveling from Iran to the Republic of Korea (ROK), according to the ministry.


The ministry said that as of 9 a.m. Sunday, SANCHI was still floating and burning, and the oil on board spilled into the sea, without specifying the area of contamination.


The 225-meter bulk freighter CF CRYSTAL carried 64,000 tonnes of grain and was partly damaged. It is owned by a Chinese shipping company and was traveling from the United States to Guangdong, China.


Chinese maritime authorities have dispatched eight vessels , including three specialized cleansing vessels, for search and rescue. After coordination by the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center, the ROK dispatched a coast guard ship and a fixed-wing aircraft to assist in the search and rescue.


"The Chinese government attaches great importance to the accident," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said Sunday, adding that the cause of the accident is still under investigation.




Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2013 shows mountain climbers are seen at the glacier field near Mont-Blanc of the Alps. Mont-Blanc with the altitude of 4,810 meters is the highest peak in Europe. (XinhuaWang Xiaojun)

GENEVA , July 18 (Xinhua) -- Seventy-five years after a Swiss couple disappeared near a ski resort in the Alps their frozen and mummified bodies have been found, Swiss newspaper Le Matin reported Tuesday.


The frozen corpses of Marceline and Francine Dumoulin were found lying near each other in the receding Tsanfleuron glacier not far from the famed Gstaad resort.


Swiss police said a DNA search would be carried out to definitively establish their identities, but the newspaper quoted 79-year-old Marceline Udry-Dumoulin as saying she believed the remains were of her parents, who went missing on Aug. 15, 1942.


The black, almost charred-looking remains were found by an employee of the ski station on July 13 engaged in what he believed was a routine inspection tour at an altitude of 2,600 meters.


"From afar , it looked like small rocks, but there were too many in the same place," explained Bernhard Tschannen who runs the nearby Glacier 3000, to Swiss public radio RTS.


"It was a man and a woman wearing clothes from the last (world) war", Tschannen was quoted as saying. "The ice preserved them perfectly and their belongings were intact."


Tschannen told Le Matin that the couple had probably fallen into a crevasse.


Udry-Dumoulin said, "We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day."


Her father , a shoemaker, and mother, a teacher, went to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in Canton Valais in 1942, but never came back.


Until now, "I can say that after 75 years of waiting this news gives me a deep sense of calm," Udry-Dumoulin said.




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