At least 28 people have died and 14 people are still missing after a tourist boat capsized in Vietnam during bad weather.<\/p>\n
The incident took place in Ha Long Bay, a popular tourist destination in the north of the country.<\/p>\n
Most of the passengers were reportedly Vietnamese families visiting from the capital Hanoi.<\/p>\n
Heavy rain has been hindering the search for survivors, rescuers say, but so far 11 people have been pulled from the water alive.<\/p>\n
The vessel, named Wonder Seas, was carrying 53 people when it capsized after encountering a sudden storm, a statement from the Vietnamese Border Guards and navy said.<\/p>\n
A 14-year-old boy was rescued after four hours trapped in an air pocket in the upturned boat’s hull, one official told the VNExpress news site.<\/p>\n
Hospital director Le Ngoc Dung told the news site that a 10-year-old boy was also among those saved, and is currently in a stable condition at Bai Chay Hospital.<\/p>\n
Of the 28 bodies so far recovered, eight were children, VNExpress reports.<\/p>\n
Rescue efforts are set to continue into the night to find the dozens still missing.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent his condolences to the families of the dead.<\/p>\n
Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province is dotted with hundreds of tiny islets, attracting 4 million tourists in 2019, and is a Unesco World Heritage site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 28 people have died and 14 people are still missing after a tourist boat capsized in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}