51.   All its passengers were rescued and transferred to other boats milling around the islands, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese.

52.   But Cuban officials maintain the two vessels accidentally collided, and that its boat tried to rescue drowning passengers.

53.   Crews rescued several passengers who were trapped in the demolished tail section.

54.   Contrary to earlier reports, the television said the pilot was killed in the crash and that an injured passenger was rescued and had been hospitalized.

55.   They quoted reports from the coastal Mannar as saying the other passengers had been rescued by fishermen in the area.

56.   Other passengers were rescued or swam to safety, the Ittefaq said quoting police and witnesses.

57.   Police from Patuakhali district rescued the passengers from a shoreland in the Bamanabad river after the pirates fled on seeing security forces, a district administrative chief told AFP.

58.   The coast guard, port officials and private boats rushed to the scene to rescue the passengers just before the ferry went down.

59.   The fire was so intense that it delayed police and firemen rescuing the passengers, traffic officials said.

60.   The driver of the bus, which was returning from Kano, a northern commercial city, died trying to rescue his passengers, the newspaper said.