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. theSun theSundaily sinkingship missing crew japan SouthKorea
This handout photo from the Korea Coast Guard taken and released on January 25, 2023 shows coast guard forces searching for missing people after a Hong Kong cargo ship sank off South Korea's southern island of Jeju/AFPPIX: 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.“We don’t know their condition and nationalities yet,“ he added, declining to be named.
Eleven of those rescued so far were “unconscious”, the Jeju Coast Guard told AFP, adding that the rescued crew members were being transported to Japan’s southwestern Nagasaki. Three private ships were in the area and helped pick up several of the stranded crew members, Japan’s coast guard 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.Japan’s government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno confirmed that the country’s coast guard was cooperating with South Korean authorities in the rescue mission.
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