The South Korean and Japanese Coast Guards on Saturday continued
to carry out a joint rescue operation for an Indonesian crewman who
went missing near the South’s easternmost islets of Dokdo earlier
this week, officials said, AzerNEWS reports,
citing Yonhap.
The 20-something crewman who had been on a fishing vessel fell
into seas some 195 kilometers northeast of Dokdo around 11:15 a.m.
on Friday.
Alongside a 5,000-ton South Korean vessel and a 1,250-ton
Japanese vessel, a civilian fishing boat also joined the search
operations that resumed after sunrise, according to officials.
A Coast Guard official vowed to conduct a seamless search,
adding both sides…