South Korea Navy Ship Sinks after Hiting Fishing Boat
- 14 years ago
A South Korean navy ship has sunk off the country's southwest coast. The ship collided with a fishing boat on Wednesday evening, killing one sailor and leaving two missing.
A South Korean Navy ship has sunk of the coast Wednesday, leaving one crew member dead and two others missing. It happened after the 150 ton vessel collided with a 270 ton fishing boat near the southern island of Jeju Wednesday night.
The defense ministry says 28 sailors have been rescued.
[Kim, (Fisherman)]:
"Small ships are speedy and they are not easily located by radar."
Last March South Korea lost a warship sunk by a torpedo.
Forty-six crew perished in the attack, which South Korea blames on its communist neighbor, North Korea.
A South Korean Navy ship has sunk of the coast Wednesday, leaving one crew member dead and two others missing. It happened after the 150 ton vessel collided with a 270 ton fishing boat near the southern island of Jeju Wednesday night.
The defense ministry says 28 sailors have been rescued.
[Kim, (Fisherman)]:
"Small ships are speedy and they are not easily located by radar."
Last March South Korea lost a warship sunk by a torpedo.
Forty-six crew perished in the attack, which South Korea blames on its communist neighbor, North Korea.