Five confirmed dead after ship sinks in east China

BEIJING: Rescuers in China have retrieved five bodies and are still searching for five others who remained missing after a fishing boat sank in the Yellow Sea.

China's marine authority and the navy sent ships and divers to search for the missing after their boat sank on Saturday but their efforts have been hampered by the bad weather and rough sea condition, the city government of Qingdao said yesterday.

Ten people had gone missing after their fishing boat collided with a merchant ship and sank about 40 nautical miles south off the Chaolian Island, Qingdao City of east Shandong Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.