Russian rescuers continued to search Friday for 13 crew members still missing from the trawler that sank in icy waters near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula earlier this week.
According to Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry, 56 people died when the trawler Dalniy Vostok sank Tuesday in the Sea of Okhotsk. Sixty-three crew members were rescued.
The ship’s crew of 132 included 78 Russians. Another 42 were from Myanmar and the rest from Ukraine, Lithuania and Vanuatu.
U Aung Kyaw Moe, an official with Myanmar’s embassy in Moscow, told the Voice of America’s Burmese Service that 22 Burmese crew members were rescued, according to …read more
Source: Voice of America
