The boat, with 17 people on board, sank near a fishing port in Dalian at about 2 am (local time), state-run Xinhua reported.

Only one person had been rescued so far and efforts were on to trace the 16 others, officials in northeast China's Liaoning Province said.

  

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First Published: Nov 28 2012 | 2:55 PM IST

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