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6 Chinese, 4 Japanese missing off southern Japan: report

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-12 09:18
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TOKYO: A fishing boat carrying 10 crew members went missing and might have capsized Tuesday off the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, Kyodo News repoarted.

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The Japanese Coast Guard has dispatched an airplane and a patrol boat to the area to search for the 113-ton Yamada Maru No. 2, with which contact was lost at around 4 am Tuesday.

Of the 10 crew members, six are Chinese and the rest Japanese, according to the Coast Guard.

Another boat found a rescue raft apparently belonging to the Yamada Maru No. 2 in the area at around 5 am, but no one was on it, the report said.

Winds of 46.8 kilometers per hour were blowing off the islands at the time.
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