
Oriental Express
Ep3. The 1994 Qiandao Lake Massacre
<p>Qiandao Lake, 1994: a tour boat is found burned out in deep water where no pleasure boat has any business being, with thirty-two people dead in a crew cabin a metre and a half high — a room you can only reach by climbing down. Every life jacket aboard is still in place, unused. In a fire that burns through the night with six professional boatmen aboard, somebody always gets out. Nobody got out.</p><p>The wreck is full of things that don't belong. A petrol drum on a boat that ran on diesel. A forty-kilogram iron ladder gone from th...

