At least 12 sailors on a Chinese-flagged freighter died of suspected food poisoning off Vietnam’s south coast, a government official said on Friday.
After receiving distress calls from the ship’s captain, authorities in the island district of Con Dao, an archipelago of Vietnam, sent helicopters to take the victims and nine other sailors to a hospital ashore, according to Huynh Trung Son, a government official. place.
“The survivors are in critical condition and our medical team is trying to save them,” Son said by phone.
“We could not identify the nationality of the sailors, but they are probably Chinese,” he added.
The ship Wu Zhou 8 was en route from Thailand to China, he said, adding that it was not immediately clear what the ship was carrying.
The ship was built in 2013 with a carrying capacity of 76,005 deadweight tons and departed Thailand on Sept. 28 for Lianyungang, China, according to data from the ship tracking website Marine Traffic.
Source: CNN Brasil
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