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Fire leaves 4,500 stranded on cruise ship in Pacific

By Michael Thurston | China Daily | Updated: 2010-11-11 08:06

Fire leaves 4,500 stranded on cruise ship in Pacific

The cruise ship Carnival Splendor sits adrift approximately 320 km southwest of San Diego, California, on Tuesday. A US Navy aircraft carrier was diverted from a training mission in the Pacific to deliver supplies to the American luxury liner left stranded off the Mexican coast by an engine room fire. US Navy photo / Reuters

LOS ANGELES - A luxury cruise ship stranded off Mexico's coast in the Pacific with nearly 4,500 people on board was being towed to San Diego, California late on Tuesday, more than 24 hours after an engine fire broke out.

Fire leaves 4,500 stranded on cruise ship in Pacific

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