TOKYO: Japan and South Korea's coast guards were searching Wednesday for eight crew from a cargo ship that sank between the two countries, after 14 others were rescued. Read more:
TOKYO: Japan and South Korea's coast guards were searching Wednesday for eight crew from a cargo ship that sank between the two countries, after 14 others were rescued.'A total of 14 have been rescued,' a spokesman for the Japanese coast guard told Agence France-Presse.'We don't know their condition and nationalities yet,' he added, declining to be named.He said six of the crew had been rescued by South Korea's coast guard, which was assisting the operation.
A Japanese coast guard plane and two ships were at the scene, with additional Japanese and South Korean vessels en route, officials from both countries said.The ship's captain used a satellite phone to tell South Korean coast guard officials that he and the crew would abandon the sinking ship in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Jeju Coast Guard said.Contact with the crew was then lost.
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