Tokyo, Mar 6 (EFE).- One person has died and another six are missing after a Taiwanese fishing boat sank in Japanese waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, Japan’s coast guard said Monday.
The coast guard said it received information from the Maritime Self-Defense Force on Sunday about the capsized ship in waters near the islands, administered by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing, which calls them Diaoyu.
The fishing boat’s crew consisted of one Taiwanese and six Indonesians, according to the Japanese coast guard, which confirmed Monday the discovery of the body of one of the crew members on the boat.
Search and rescue tasks are underway to locate the remaining six crew members of the ship, which capsized some 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of the island of Ishigaki, in the southwestern Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
The accident occurred at a time when 1.5 meter (some 5 feet) high waves and winds of about 29 kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour) were recorded in the area. EFE
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