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Marine Department launches investigation into jetfoil accident
The Director of Marine has ordered an investigation into an accident last night (October 23) in which a jetfoil from Hong Kong stopped suddenly as it approached Macau causing injuries to passengers, a spokesman for the Marine Department said today (October 24).

The spokesman said investigating officers from the department were proceeding to Macau to commence the enquiry into the cause of the accident and the subsequent action of the crew. The investigation is expected to take two months to complete.

In the accident which took place at about 8 pm last night, more than 30 passengers and crew on board of Urzela of Shun Tak - China Travel Ship Management Ltd were injured.




End/Thursday, October 24, 2002