At least 43 people have died and 26 are missing after a Russian trawler sank late Wednesday in the western Pacific Ocean near the Kamchatka Peninsula, the TASS news agency reported, citing an officer at a maritime rescue coordination center in the area.
There were 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler and 63 people have been rescued from icy waters, TASS said.
The ship was carrying 78 Russian nationals, as well as 54 foreign nationals from Myanmar, Ukraine, Lithuania and Vanuatu, the news agency said.
The trawler wrecked in the Sea of Okhotsk, 330 kilometers west of the Krutogorovsky settlement …read more
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