25 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A Hong Kong cargo ship sank on Wednesday off the South Korean island of Jeju, with 22 Chinese and Burmese crew members on board.
Four Chinese crew members have been rescued, while the Coast Guard — in a joint operation between South Korea and Japan — is trying to rescue the other 18 people who were adrift in lifeboats, according to the Japanese agency Kyodo. .
The ship — with 14 members from China and eight from Myanmar — was sailing in the sea between South Korea and Japan and sank 148 kilometers southeast of the city of Seogwipo, on Jeju Island, around 01:45 a.m. local, as Yonhap has reported.
