South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft on Sunday were searching for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized off the country's southwestern coast.
Members of the rescue team search for people from a capsized boat in waters off the country's southwestern coast, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft were searching on Sunday in waters off the country's southwestern coast for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized.
The coast guard from the southwestern port city of Mokpo said that three crew members were rescued by a nearby commercial vessel following the accident late Saturday near Daebichi Island in the sea county of Sinan. Officials were planning to salvage the boat, but it wasn’t known whether the nine missing crew members would be inside. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said seven of the missing were South Korean nationals and the two others were foreigners, but it didn’t immediately confirm their nationalities.
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