HONG KONG - Authorities in Hong Kong said on Monday they HAD recovered seven more bodies from a Ukrainian tugboat, the Neftegaz-67, which sank more than a month ago in one of the territory's worst maritime accidents in recent years.
Eighteen sailors went missing after the Ukraine-registered tugboat Neftegaz-67 sank on March 22 after colliding with a large Chinese bulk carrier to settle on the seabed 37-metres underwater.
The wreck remained submerged for 37 days before authorities managed to deploy one of Asia's largest floating derricks -- the Hua Tian Long -- to finally lift the ship to the surface on Sunday.
A Hong Kong police spokesman said seven more bodies had been recovered from the wreck since then. Of the 18 missing sailors, a total of 10 bodies have so far been found.
Days after the sinking, rescue divers scrambled to find possible survivors in the upturned wreck, but only managed to recover three corpses before the search was called off. Only seven members of the 25-strong crew are known to have survived.
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