Two sailors, including two Bangladeshis, are missing after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship on the eastern coast of China.
China's Global Television Network - CGTN, quoted by the Ministry of Transportation, said that on Saturday night, the clashes occurred on the night of 296 kilometers away from China's eastern coast. After the collision with Hong Kong's cargo ship, a fire broke out in the Panamanian tanker tanker.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua said that all the missing people are the sailors of a tanker named Sanchi. Of them, 30 are Iranian and two Bangladeshi citizens.
The Chinese Ministry of Transportation said 21 crew members of the cargo ship were rescued. Meanwhile, eight ships of Maritime Authority of China and a coast guard of South Korea Coast Guard and an airplane are conducting search operations around the scene to rescue the missing sailors.
