Cargo ship sinks, 11 missing near Hong Kong

Authorities launched an air and sea rescue operation Monday to find 11 crew members from a Chinese cargo ship after it collided with another vessel and sank just outside Hong Kong's teeming waters.
Four helicopters and more than 20 ships from China and Hong Kong were deploying to the waters near Po Toi, an island lying at the edge of Hong Kong's territory where the ship sank in the early hours of the morning, officials said.
"Two cargo ships collided and one of them sank," a police spokeswoman told AFP. Authorities are still trying to determine the exact location of the sunken ship, a marine department spokeswoman said.
Aerial footage of the scene shown on Hong Kong television showed an oil slick on the surface of the sea where the ship is believed to have gone down, according to AFP.