Overnight searches failed to find more than 50 sailors
missing the day after a South Korean fishing trawler sank in Arctic waters off
eastern Russia, a Seoul official said on Tuesday.
Rescuers were still searching the area for the victims in
waters of around zero degrees Celsius, a Foreign Ministry official said.
The boat sank on Monday in the Bering Sea off Russia's
easternmost Chukotka region.
Two Russian vessels on Monday rescued eight people from the
Oryong-501, one of whom died of hypothermia, Russia's Interfax news agency
reported. It quoted Artur Rets, an official in the Russian port of
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, who put the number of missing at 54.
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