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Eight people missing after ship crash between Japan and South Korea

This photograph of the Korean Coast Guard, taken and released on January 25, 2023, shows Coast Guard forces searching for missing persons after a Hong Kong freighter sank off the South Korean island of Jeju. | Font: AFP | Photographer: HANDOUT

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Coast Guard Mr. Japan The US and South Korea searched for eight crew members of a sunken cargo ship between the two countries on Wednesday, after 14 people were rescued.

“A total of 14 people were rescued,” a spokesman for the Japanese Coast Guard told AFP. “We still don’t know their status or nationality,” added the spokesman, who asked not to be named.

He specified that the six crew members were rescued by the South Korean Coast Guard supporting the operation.

Eleven of those rescued were “unconscious,” the South Korean Coast Guard said, noting that the rescued crew members were being transferred to Nagasaki, southwest of Japan.

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According to the Japanese Coast Guard, the crew on board included 14 Chinese and eight Burmese. | Font: AFP | Photographer: HANDOUT

“One aircraft is in place, two ships are on the way,” the spokesman added.

ship jin tian issued a distress signal at 23:15 local Tuesday 110 km west of the outlying islands danjoin the southwest of Japanindicated by the coast guard of this country.

Three private boats in the area helped pick up several crew members at sea.

According to authorities in both countries, a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft and two ships arrived on the scene, while other Japanese and South Korean ships were on their way to provide support.

SKOREA-JAPAN-ACCIDENT
This photograph of the Korean Coast Guard, taken and released on January 25, 2023, shows Coast Guard forces searching for missing persons after a Hong Kong freighter sank off the South Korean island of Jeju. | Font: AFP | Photographer: HANDOUT

The ship’s captain used a satellite phone on Wednesday morning to inform the South Korean Coast Guard that he and the crew were leaving the sinking ship.

Subsequently, contact was lost.

The accident occurred at a time when a cold front was blowing over most of the territory. Japanwith heavy snow in some areas and temperatures of 3º Celsius during the day near the rescue site.

Jin Tian cargo ship 6651 tonsregistered in Hong Kong.

According to the Japanese Coast Guard, the crew on board included 14 Chinese and eight Burmese.

In 2020, a dry cargo ship with 43 crew members and 6000 heads cattle shipwrecked near southwest Japan after a typhoon. Two crew members survived.

(According to AFP)


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