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14 Confirmed Dead, 1 Still Missing from SW China Capsizing

(CRI Online)    08:16, June 12, 2016

Rescuers search for missing people in Bailong Lake of Guangyuan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 5, 2016. A leisure boat carrying 18 people capsized on the Lake due to strong gales Saturday afternoon. One child died and 14 people remain missing. [Photo: Xinhua]

All but one of the victims from last week's pleasure-boat capsizing in Sichuan has now been recovered.

Searchers have managed to retrieve 13 bodies from the sunken boat, which sank a week ago Saturday on Bailong Lake in the city of Guangyuan.

The boat, with 18 onboard, went down after being toppled in heavy gales.

Of those onboard, only 3 managed to survive.

The incident temporarily shut down all pleasure boating activities on the lake in Guangyuan.

The city itself, located on the northern end of the Sichuan basin in the northern part of the province, is a popular tourist destination.

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