Twenty-six Chinese seamen have been rescued from a cargo that is sinking off the northern coast of the Philippines, a Chinese embassy official in Manila said on Monday morning.
The Panama-registered cargo, with 28 crew members on board, started to go down near the coast of Philippines' Ilocos Norte province at Sunday night, said Huang Li, the consulate official with the embassy, quoting sources of Chinese and Philippine marine rescue teams.
Twenty-six seamen, before being trapped in the ocean, were quickly picked up by a passing Japanese crude vessel while the captain and a technician insisted staying on the sinking cargo to rescue the goods.
It is not immediately known whether the two had managed to escape the sinking vessel, Huang said, adding that the Japanese ship was not reachable by phone at the moment.
Source: Xinhua
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