20 missing after ship sinks

BOMBAY - Rescue teams searched for 20 crewmen missing after a cargo vessel sank off India's west coast yesterday killing four…

BOMBAY - Rescue teams searched for 20 crewmen missing after a cargo vessel sank off India's west coast yesterday killing four people, hours before another ship went down in a river near the eastern city of Calcutta.

Hospital staff said four of 13 people rescued had died soon after being taken to hospital. The M. V Arcadia Pride was loaded with sulphur.

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