At least 15 people are missing after a speedboat collided with a Vietnamese cargo vessel Saturday and capsized in the Java Sea, according to an official. The passenger boat was ferrying 27 people some 50 kilometre off the coast of Tuban, a small town in East Java, when it collided with a ship transporting tapioca starch from Vietnam.
All 22 Vietnamese crew members aboard the cargo vessel were safe but the speetboat carrying mostly Indonesian fishermen sunk after the collision. "Twelve people have been rescued alive while 15 others are still missing," Frans Supriadi, a spokesman for the local disaster agency, told AFP.