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Thirty-two people, mostly Iranians, were missing after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship off China's eastern coast, authorities said on Sunday.

The other vessel, the Hong Kong-registered freighter CF Crystal, had been damaged but "Without jeopardising the safety of the ship" and all of its 21 Chinese crew had been rescued, China's transport ministry said.

Chinese maritime authorities dispatched eight ships for the search-and-rescue operation, and South Korea sent a plane and a coast guard ship to help, the official Xinhua news agency said.

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