BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A tour boat with some 150 passengers on board capsized Sunday afternoon in northwest Colombia. So far, at least nine people are confirmed dead while 30 others are still missing.
Here is a look at some major ferry and ship sinking disasters around the world in recent years:
--- On June 1, 2015, a cruise ship with more than 450 people on board sank in China's Yangtze River after being hit by a tornado. On June 13, 442 deaths were confirmed.
At the time of the accident, the 2,200-ton ship was bound for Chongqing in southwestern China, after departing on May 28 from Nanjing and making multiple stops along the way at scenic sites along the river. It is the deadliest boat disaster in China in almost 70 years.
--- On April 18, 2015, a packed boat with about 700 migrants on board capsized in international waters south of Italy's Sicily. Only 28 people survived the wreck.
The 20-meter-long fishing boat sank 70 miles (113 km) off the Libyan coast and 110 miles (177 km) south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, as a large merchant ship approached it.
A survivor told the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR that some 700 people on board, hopeful the ship would save them, moved to one side, toppling the boat.
--- On April 16, 2014, a 6,825-ton ferry sank off South Korea's southwest coast, leaving 295 passengers dead and nine others missing. Among the 476 passengers on board, 172 were rescued. Most of the survivors are still suffering from the trauma.
--- On Aug. 16, 2013, two ships with about 700 passengers and crew members on board collided in the central Philippine province of Cebu, killing nearly 140 people.
--- On March 13, 2012, more than 130 people were killed after an overcrowded ferry carrying about 200 passengers capsized in a river in Bangladesh's southern Munshiganj district.
--- On July 5, 2011, a vessel carrying passengers from Sudan to Saudi Arabia caught fire and sank off Sudan's coast, leaving 197 people killed and three others rescued.
--- On April 6, 2011, a boat carrying 300 African refugees was wrecked in the sea off the coast of southern Italy, leaving more than 20 people dead and 48 rescued. The rest remain missing.
--- On Aug. 5, 2009, the Tongan ferry "Princess Ashika" sank while traveling from the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa to Ha'afeva, in the Nomuka Islands group. Two passengers were killed, while the whereabouts of 93 others were unknown.
--- On June 21, 2008, the Philippine passenger ferry "M/V Princess of the Stars" with 862 people aboard capsized off the Philippines' central province of Romblon at the height of Typhoon Fengshen. Only 50 passengers survived.
--- On May 4, 2007, a boat carrying about 150 Haitians capsized near Providenciales Island in the Atlantic Ocean, leaving at least 61 people dead.
