On March 31, word came out of Qiandao lake in Zhejiang Province of mainland China of a fire in a tour boat in which all 32 people aboard, including 24 Taiwanese tourists, died in the boat's tiny hold of only about 215 square feet.
三月卅一日，大陸浙江省千島湖傳出遊輪起火燃燒事件，包括廿四名台灣旅客在內的卅二人，全部陳屍於寬僅約五坪的底艙。