Chemical tanker collides with cargo ship off Japan

Chemical tanker collides with cargo ship off Japan
This Xin Hai 99 initially began to sink following the incident (Kyodo News/AP)

A Japanese chemical tanker has collided with a cargo vessel off the coast of south-western Japan.

No-one was injured among the six Japanese crew aboard the tanker Ryoshinmaru, or among the 14 Chinese crew on the Belize-registered cargo ship Xin Hai 99.

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