Several dead in a shipwreck in southern China Sea following a typhoon

The Typhon Chaba formed in the center of the Southern China Sea and touched Earth on Saturday afternoon in the Guangdong.

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Twelve bodies were found after the sinking, this weekend, of a ship, cut in two in the southern China Sea by a typhoon, Chinese authorities announced on Monday July 4. The engineering boat was 160 naval miles southwest of Hong Kong when it was taken on Saturday in the Chaba storm. The drama made 27 missing, according to a first count established this weekend.

According to the Guangdong Maritime Research and Rescue Center, the Chinese province that surrounds Hong Kong, “the competent services currently intensifying their identification work” of the remains, said the center. Three of the 30 crew members could be rescued on Saturday and were taken to the hospital. 2>

waves 10 meters high

Images provided by the Hong Kong authorities this weekend showed a person being halter, while waves crashed on the bridge of the ship half submerged.

The Typhon Chaba formed in the center of the Southern China Sea and touched land on Saturday afternoon in the Guangdong. The place where the ship was recorded with winds of 144 km/h and waves reaching 10 meters high, had reported the authorities.

Seven aircraft, 246 ships and nearly 500 fishing boats remain mobilized to find the other missing, announced on Monday the research and maritime rescue center.

/Media reports.