Chinese ship rescues victims of Indonesia's sunken ship


JAKARTA, June 29 (Xinhua): 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 on Monday.

Chinese vessel Guo Yuan 28, 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 spokesman Yusuf Latief said.

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