9 missing after fishing boat capsizes in South Korea


South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol urges maximum efforts to rescue nine crew members who are missing after their fishing boat capsizes off the waters of the country’s southwestern coast. – AFP pic, February 5, 2023.

RESCUE workers were searching by sea and air for nine people missing after a fishing boat capsized in waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast, authorities said today.

The 24-tonne vessel overturned in waters off the coast of Sinan county late last night, according to the interior ministry.


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