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| Five die in Sydney harbour crash | Five die in Sydney harbour crash |
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| Five people have died in a collision between a fishing trawler and a small cabin cruiser in Australia. | |
| Nine others were injured as all 14 people aboard the smaller boat were thrown into Sydney Harbour. | |
| All of the dead and injured - aged between 18 and 31 - were reportedly from the cabin cruiser. | All of the dead and injured - aged between 18 and 31 - were reportedly from the cabin cruiser. |
| The accident occurred just before 0300 (1700 GMT on Wednesday) in the once-busy commercial port, now mostly used by pleasure craft and ferries. | The accident occurred just before 0300 (1700 GMT on Wednesday) in the once-busy commercial port, now mostly used by pleasure craft and ferries. |
| Conditions at the time of the accident were cold and pitch black, reports the BBC's Nick Bryant from Sydney, and there were scenes of chaos on a nearby wharf as the injured were treated. | |
| Both boats have now been impounded at a police marine area, our correspondent says, while investigators try to make sense of why 14 people were on board a small cruiser in the middle of the night. | |
| Local media is reporting that the boat, which had "Sydney Ship Repair" written on the side, had been stolen. | |
| The last fatal crash in the famous harbour, which houses the striking Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, was in March 2007, when three died after a passenger ferry collided with a pleasure boat. |