Fuel from a ship, which collided with the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Jiangsu Province early Sunday, has begun leaking from the stricken vessel but it has not polluted the water, local authorities said Monday. 

 

The ship, Xinchuan 8, was en route from Tongling, Anhui Province to Luoyuan, Fujian Province, laden with 12,500 tons of limestone when it collided with a bridge pier at 4:20 am Sunday. The damage caused the vessel to take on water, according to a report sent by Nanjing Maritime Safety Administration (NMSA) to the Global Times on Monday. 

 

All 18 crew members were rescued by local patrol ships at 4:55 am, just five minutes before the ship sank about 3.5 kilometers downstream from the bridge, the report said. 

 

"No one was seriously injured and none were hospitalized," a staffer surnamed Dai from the NMSA information office told the Global Times.  

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