A Russian freezer trawler with an international crew of 132 sank early Thursday morning in the Sea of Okhotsk off of the Kamchatka Peninsula and at least 54 crew members were killed, rescue workers said.
Sixty-three of the 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok were rescued with the sea’s temperature near zero degrees, Viktor Klepikov, coordinating captain of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky maritime rescue coordination centre, told reporters.
“The rescue operation is going on, we are still looking for 15 people,” Klepikov said. “At this time we do not know what might have caused the tragedy.”
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Source: The Borneo Post
