Taipei, Oct. 19 (CNA) Two Panama-registered cargo ships sank off Taiwan's west
coast, leaving one crewman dead and three missing late Monday and early Tuesday
as super typhoon Megi churned up huge waves in the Taiwan Strait, the Coast
Guard reported. Xin Yi, a cement carrier scheduled to sail from China to
Brunei, broke down off Hsinchu at around 10:30 p.m. Monday. As of Tuesday
morning, 18 of the vessel's 22 crewmen had been rescued by Legend of the Seas
-- a cruise ship near the scene -- the Coast Guard, Air Force and National
Airborne Service Corps. A body was retrieved by one of the ships, the Coast
Guard said, and three people were still missing. The crew included 17 Burmese,
four Indonesians and one Taiwanese. The Taichung Harbor Bureau said the victim
was Burmese.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, less than three hours after the first
accident, another Panama-flagged freighter, Dili Star, sunk off Kaohsiung
County, according to the Air Force's Chiayi Base and the Southern Coastal
Patrol Office. The 12 crewmen abandoned the sinking ship by lifeboat and were
rescued by helicopter. None was seriously injured, said the Air Force.
Typhoon Megi, which made landfall in the Philippines Monday, brought heavy rain
and strong winds to Taiwan as its outer band crossed part of the island, the
Central Weather Bureau reported.
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