Cambodia: Seven bodies linked to sinking found in Vietnam

SEVEN bodies believed to be from a boat that sank off Cambodia’s coast were found floating off Vietnam’s southern Phu Quoc island, state media said.

The vessel with 41 Chinese people on board got into difficulties near the Cambodian casino hub of Sihanoukville last week.

It was carrying Chinese migrants who had been promised work.

Thirty people were rescued in Cambodian and Vietnamese waters while three of the migrants were found dead, authorities said earlier.

“Seven bodies drifted to the Bai Truong beach on Phu Quoc island. They were all in the process of decomposition,” the official newspaper of Vietnam’s public security ministry said yesterday.

The report said two bodies were found with Chinese identity cards and their decomposing state “is also quite consistent with the time when the boat sank a week ago not far from Phu Quoc”. — AFP