File picture of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant located in the typhoon shelter near Aberdeen on the south side of Hong Kong island. - AP
HONG KONG (AFP): Mystery over the fate of Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant deepened Friday (June 24) after its owner stirred confusion over whether the financially struggling tourist attraction had actually sunk while being towed away from the city last week.
On Monday Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises released a statement saying the vessel had capsized on Sunday near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea after it "encountered adverse conditions" and began to take on water.
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