SYDNEY, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Two sailors participating in an annual yacht race between Sydney and Hobart have died in separate incidents, police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement on Friday.
Officers from the Marine Area Command were notified at 11:50 p.m. Thursday local time that a crew member of one race entrant had been struck by a boom, a large horizontal pole at the bottom of a sail, according to the statement.
