Shipwreck off Japan
Freighter sinks 100 kilometers off the coast – authorities are looking for missing people
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STORY: After a freighter capsized off the coast of Japan, rescue teams continue to search for missing crew members. Japanese Chief of Cabinet Hirokazu Matsuno informed the public in Tokyo on Wednesday: “Around 11:15 p.m. local time yesterday, the 7th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters received a distress signal from the Hong Kong-registered “Jin Tian”, on which there were a total of 22 crew members – 14 Chinese and 8 Chinese “Myanmar nationals – were on board. We were told the ship was taking on water about 100 kilometers off the coast west of the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture and is in danger of sinking.” The cargo ship sank a few hours later. The Japanese Coast Guard deployed three ships, a helicopter and an airplane. There was initially no information about the cause of the shipwreck. A Coast Guard spokesman said the wind was very strong at the time the distress signal was received.
The Japanese Coast Guard is searching for shipwrecked people with three ships, a helicopter and an airplane. A Hong Kong freighter capsized in the East China Sea.
More than a dozen crew members have been pulled from the water during search and rescue operations after a cargo ship sank in the sea between South Korea and Japan. At least 14 sailors had been recovered by early Wednesday afternoon (local time), a spokesman for the South Korean Coast Guard said. However, it is initially unclear how many of them are still alive. Six were recovered by South Korea’s coast guard and the rest by the Japanese coast guard and civilian ships nearby.
Japan: 22 people on board sunken freighter
According to preliminary information, 22 people were on board the 6,551-ton Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Jin Tian, which had been carrying wood. The ship made an emergency call about 150 kilometers southeast of the South Korean island of Jeju early in the morning, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. When the coast guard reached the targeted location, the ship had already sunk in the sea. The reason for this was initially unclear.