TOKYO: The Japanese coastguard said Friday it had discovered a dozen bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that capsized after a collision with a Hong Kong oil tanker off Japan’s western coast the previous day. Advertisements“Our divers found all the bodies of the missing 12 crew members inside the ship,” a coastguard official told Agence France-Presse. Japanese authorities later said one of four crew members who had been rescued from the fishing boat subsequently died, bringing the death toll to 13. The Chinese vessel, the 290-ton “Lurong Yuanyu 378”, had 16 Chinese-national crew members in total. Japan had deployed three patrol boats to search for the missing crew, after responding to a plea for help from their Chinese counterparts.

Source: Manila Times October 06, 2017 10:30 UTC