12 Sailors Die Of Food Poisoning

About 12 sailors have been certified dead from suspected food poisoning on a Chinese flagged cargo ship sailing to  Vietnam’s southern coast, according to a government official.
The local government official, Huynh Trung Son, said after receiving distress calls from the ship’s captain, authorities in the island district of Con Dao deployed helicopters to bring the victims and nine other sailors to a hospital onshore.
“The survivors are in critical condition and our medical staff are trying to save them,” Son said via telephone.
“We haven’t been able to identify the nationality of the sailors, but they are likely Chinese,” he added.
The Wu Zhou 8 ship was en route from Thailand to China, he said, adding that it was not immediately clear what the ship was transporting.
The ship was built in 2013 with a carrying capacity of 76,005 deadweight tonnes, and left Thailand on September 28 for Lianyungang in China.