Two sailors including two #Bangladeshis missing in #China

32 sailors, including two Bangladeshis, are missing in an oil tanker collision with the cargo ship on the east coast of China. This information was made on Sunday in AFP news.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Transportation, this accident occurred last Saturday night 160 nautical miles from Shanghai. All the sailors in the Panamanian flag carrier Sanchi were missing. 30 of them Iranian and two Bangladeshi. But all the 21 crew members in the cargo ship have been rescued.

This tanker, operated by Iran's Glory Shipping, was flying to South Korea. There were 1 million 36 thousand tons of oil in the tanker. And the Hong Kong flag cargo ship had 64 thousand tons of food grains.

China's state news agency Xinhua reported that eight marines from Maritime authorities in search of the missing sailors have searched the vessel. South Korea has sent an aircraft and a Coast Guard ship to help in this work.