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Summary Twelve people, most of them foreign tourists, died Thursday when their tour boat sank in Vietnam's famed Halong Bay.
The boat was packed with 19 tourists including vacationers from the US, Australia and Britain, and their Vietnamese guide. All were sleeping on the overnight ship, which was anchored in about 30 feet of water near a small island. Nine foreigners and six Vietnamese survived only by flinging themselves overboard and swimming to other tour boats anchored nearby. Survivors were rushed to a hospital as teams scoured the area for other passengers. Vu Van Thin, chief administrator of Quang Ninh province, said that there were 27 people, including six crew members, aboard the boat owned by Truong Hai Company and all have been accounted for. It was anchored alongside dozens of other cruise boats, and weather conditions were calm at the time of the incident.
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