Sea collision off Singapore

Tue, 28 Oct 1997 | Source: AFP

SINGAPORE (AFP): A Singaporean fishing boat sank after colliding with a Vietnamese-registered container ship off here, the Singaporean Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said yesterday.

The 8,384-ton Me Linh, bound for Ho Chi Minh City, and the Singaporean boat collided late Saturday when visibility was about four kilometers, the MPA said.

No one was injured in the container vessel which was undamaged. Police coast guards rescued two Indonesians from the fishing boat, it said. Another Indonesian remains missing

The MPA is still investigating the incident, which comes 10 days after a Thai-registered crude carrier crashed into a Cypriot-flagged oil tanker also in Singapore waters, causing the island state's worst oil spill.

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