37 Killed Several Injured As Passenger Ferry Collides In Hongkong.

wounded passengers taken away

A total of 37 people were killed and scores injured when a passenger ferry collided near Lamma island with a vessel carrying company employees on a pleasure cruise to watch holiday fireworks on Monday evening.

It was the deadliest maritime accident in the territory since 1971, when 88 people were killed as a Hong Kong-Macau ferry sank during a typhoon.

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