Chinese survivors had no food and water on sinking boat tragedy in Cambodia

This handout photo taken and released by Preah Sihanouk provincial administration on shows Governor of Preah Sihanouk province Kuoch Chamroeun (centre) and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian (left) visiting a sinking survivor at a hospital in Sihanoukville. The death toll from a capsized boat off southern Cambodia's coast rose to three Chinese nationals on Sept 24 with a further nine rescued in Vietnamese waters and eight still missing, after the boat with 41 Chinese people on board got into difficulties off Sihanoukville, on Sept 22. - AFP

SIHANOUKVILLE,Sept 25 (AP): Chinese survivors from a boat that sank near a Cambodian island, killing three people and leaving eight missing, said they embarked on what they believed would be a short-term fishing job and ended up without food and water aboard the vessel and their belongings taken away.

Cambodian authorities said Friday they rescued 21 people a day after the boat small wooden fishing vessel sank near Koh Tang, a Cambodian island close to the maritime border with Vietnam.