South Korea, Japan Conduct Joint Rescue Operation For Missing Indonesian Crewman For 2nd Day
DONGHAE, South Korea, March 28 (Bernama-Yonhap) — The South Korean and Japanese Coast Guards on Saturday continued to carry out a joint rescue operation for an Indonesian crewman who went missing near the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo earlier this week, officials said, Yonhap News Agency reported. The 20-something crewman who had been on a fishing vessel fell into seas some 195 kilometres northeast of Dokdo around 11:15 a.m. on Friday. Alongside a 5,000-tonne South Korean vessel and a 1,250-tonne Japanese vessel, a civilian fishing boat also joined the search operations that resumed after sunrise, according to officials. A Coast […]