Search and rescue efforts beneath manner after a cargo ship carrying lumber capsizes between Japan and South Korea.
Japan and South Korea are trying to find 17 crew members of a cargo ship that capsized in tough climate.
Japanese and South Korean media stated 5 members of the crew have been rescued on Wednesday after the 6,551-tonne “Jintian” sank off the coast of Japan’s Nagasaki. All of them have been picked up by close by vessels.
The ‘Jintian’ went beneath practically 4 hours after its crew despatched a misery name late on Tuesday, in line with Japan’s Kyodo information company.
The crew stated their ship had “tilted and is flooding”, the company reported.
Japanese officers stated 14 crew members on the Hong Kong-registered ship are Chinese language and eight are from Myanmar.
In line with South Korean officers, the ship’s captain final communicated with the coast guard of South Korea’s Jeju Island by means of a satellite tv for pc telephone at about 2:41am native time on Wednesday (17:41 GMT Tuesday), saying that crew members would abandon the ship.
The ship was utterly submerged when the South Korean Coast Guard arrived on the scene, reported the Yonhap information company.
The crews didn’t discover anybody on the three life rafts and two lifeboats they searched.
There was no fast phrase on what precipitated the vessel, which was carrying lumber, to capsize.
The incident occurred as a chilly snap hit a lot of Japan and South Korea, with heavy snow falling in some areas and daytime temperatures in a number of the islands nearest the rescue web site reaching simply 3C (37F).
Japan’s coast guard stated winds have been robust on the time the misery sign was obtained.
It stated it had dispatched patrol boats and plane to the world, however their arrivals have been delayed by tough climate.
