The ship flowed overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday off the archipelago, in the East China Sea. He transported twenty-two crew members, of which fourteen were rescued.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
The Japanese and South Korean coast guard were, Wednesday, January 25, still looking for eight crew members out of the twenty-two of a ship having flowed the previous night off the coast of southwest Japan , in the Eastern China Sea.
“In total, fourteen have been rescued” so far, a spokesperson for Japanese coast guards told the Agency France-Presse (AFP). “We still do not know their state and their nationalities.” Eleven of them were in an “unconscious” state, the South Korean coast guard told AFP, which found six of the shipwrecked people, which were transported to The port of Nagasaki (southwest of Japan).
The Jin Tian, a cargo ship of 6,651 tonnes recorded in Hong Kong, issued an SOS at the end of the evening, Japanese Tuesday, while it was about 110 km west of the Danjo Islands, a Miss-archipelago remote and uninhabited located in the southwest of Japan.
Cold wave
Three other commercial boats were in the area at that time and were able to rescue several of the shipwrecked, according to the Japanese coast guard. A Japanese coast guard plane and two boats were on site on Wednesday, and other South Korea ships were to reinforce, the authorities said in Tokyo and Seoul.
The sinking of the Jin Tian occurred while a cold wave of unusual magnitude affects East Asia. Diurnal temperatures in the islands closest to the sinking place barely reach 3 ° C.
According to the Japanese coast guard, the Jin Tian crew included a total of fourteen Chinese and eight Burmese.