A cargo ship carrying 43 crew, 39 of them Filipinos, and about 6,000 cows sank at sea after transmitting a distress signal during a typhoon off Japan, according to a survivor rescued by the country's coast guard.
In this photo released by the 10th Regional Japan Coast Guard Headquarters, a Filipino crewmember of a Panamanian cargo ship is rescued by Japanese Coast Guard members in the waters off the Amami Oshima, Japan Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. Japanese rescuers have safely plucked the crewmember from the sea while searching for the cargo ship carrying more than 40 crew and thousands of cows went missing after sending a distress call off the southern Japanese island.
The ship issued a distress call in the early hours of Wednesday from a position 185 kilometers west of Japan’s Amami Oshima island. He said one of the boat’s engines had stalled and a wave then overturned the ship, which later sank, the coast guard said in a statement.
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