"It suddenly turned upside down".Two dead and 12 missing after Jeju fishing boat sank

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A large fishing boat from Jeju to Busan sank.

has killed 2 people and disappeared 12 others in the accident.

The crew told the Coast Guard that the ship had suddenly overturned.

Reporter Ko Jae-hyung on the sidewalk.

[Reporter]
Early in the morning, a ship arrives at the port.

119 paramedics on standby approach with transport equipment.

Sailors are helped and relax at a temporary clinic set up at Hallim Port.

They are the rescue crew of the Venus ship that sank off the coast of Jeju Island.

The 129-ton Busan-registered Venus, which had 27 crew members on board, sank 24km northwest of Biyangdo Island, Jeju Island.After catching the

mackerel, it flipped over to the right of the ship while waiting for the carrier.Shortly after the

accident, fishing boats from the Venus fleet came to the rescue and rescued 15 people.

[Park Sung-gyu / Fishing boat navigator: There were 12 people in the back of the ship, and 2 people rescued all 12 people, so I found 2 people and posted them....]


The two rescued South Korean sailors were taken to the hospital but died.

Twelve crew members, including 10 South Korean sailors and two Indonesian sailors, are missing.

The Coast Guard has deployed more than 40 ships, including navy and civilian fishing boats, and 10 aircraft to the area of the accident to search for missing people.The

accident fishing boat is a fishing boat that catches fish around a net, and the net and the hull are connected, which is expected to make it difficult to search.

[Jeong Moo-won / Jeju Regional Coast Guard: The depth of the accident is 80 to 90 meters and the fishing net is connected to the hull, so we expect there will be many difficulties]

About 10 people, including the bereaved families and the families of the missing, visited Jeju.

Jeju Island has set up an on-site situation room at Hallim Port and provides one-on-one support to bereaved families and families of missing persons.

The Coast Guard decided to continue its search for missing people overnight using more than 50 ships, five aircraft, and 230 lights.

It's YTN Go Jaehyung.

Filmmaker: Yoon Ji-won, Jeong Jin-hyun
Video editing:Juyeon Lee