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74 missing after three fishing boats sink in Typhoon Wutip
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A total of 74 people have been confirmed missing after three fishing boats have sunk since yesterday afternoon in a typhoon in South China Sea, maritime authorities said today.
The boats, all from south China's Guangdong Province with 88 fishermen aboard, were lost yesterday as they attempted to navigate gales near the Xisha Islands, about 330km from China's island province of Hainan, sources with the Hainan maritime search and rescue center said.
As of this noon, rescuers had retrieved 14 survivors, the sources said.
An aircraft was sent by the Ministry of Transport at 10:39am for the rescue operation.
Meanwhile, the government of the newly-established Sansha City had mobilized local island residents as well as nearby ships to participate in the search and rescue efforts.
Scores of other ships are on their way to the scene. However, the rescue operations had been hampered by strong gales and high waves on the sea, according to the rescue center.
Altogether five fishing boats with a total of 171 people aboard were caught by Typhoon Wutip, the 21st of the season, the sources said.
China's maritime authority yesterday upgraded its wave warning from yellow to orange, the second-highest of a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, as the typhoon approached land.
The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center warned of storm tides from yesterday to today in Guangdong, Hainan and Guangxi.
Wutip is expected to make landfall on Vietnam's central coast tomorrow.
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