Two Dead, 12 Missing After Fishing Boat Accident in South Korea

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The South Korean coast guard has launched a rescue operation to find 12 missing people after a fishing boat accident off the country's southern coast that resulted in at least two deaths.

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00:00Two people are dead and 12 missing after a fishing boat accident in South Korea.

00:05A boat carrying 27 people departed the southern port city of Busan in the early hours of Friday.

00:10Authorities lost track of the boat, but the country's Coast Guard received a distress call

00:15at around 4.30 a.m. 15 people were rescued near the outlying Jeju Island. Two of those

00:20rescued suffered cardiac arrest and were declared dead upon reaching shore. The Coast Guard has

00:25launched an operation to locate the remaining 12 people, including Indonesian nationals.

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