Fiji Sun

Chinese rescue victims of an Indonesian ship

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Jakarta: A Chinese ship has saved victims of an Indonesian vessel which capsized in the Natuna Sea and handed over them to an Indonesian rescue vessel, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Office said. Chinese vessel Guo Yuan

which was passing by the scene when the shipwreck took place in the waters off Seraya Island on Saturday, rescued seven Indonesian sailors, six of them were alive and one died, the National Search and Rescue Office’s spokespers­on Yusuf Latief said.

The ship Guo Yuan 28 was on the Chinese-Brazil route, according to the spokespers­on.

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