14 missing after boat overturns in southwest China

Fourteen people are missing after a leisure boat capsized in strong winds on a lake in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Saturday.

Fourteen people are missing after a leisure boat capsized in strong winds on a lake in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government.

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Rescuers have pulled four people from the lake since the boat carrying 18 passengers capsized in the afternoon in “strong gales”, the local district government said in a statement.

The disaster has echoes of a far larger disaster last year, where 442 people perished and only 12 survived when a cruise ship in the Yangtze River capsized in a freak storm.