Two dragon boats practicing to race on a river in China have overturned and 17 people drowned, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. Television
BEIJING – Two dragon boats practicing to race on a river in China have overturned and 17 people drowned, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
Television pictures showed one of the long, narrow boats packed with paddlers going over Saturday on a stretch of a river near the city of Guilin, in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, where the current appeared to be strong.
Another dragon boat arrived at the scene, also full of paddlers, and it, too, capsized, the pictures showed.
Xinhua said 57 people had gone into the water and 200 rescuers were sent to help.
