Ship Capsizes Off South Korea, 11 Missing

Eleven people were missing after a ship carrying liquefied petroleum gas capsized off the coast of South Korea on Sunday, Yonhap Television News reported. It said one person had been rescued from the 990 deadweight tonne vessel which capsized after hitting rocks off the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula. No further details were immediately available.

Police in Chindo, an island close to where the ship capsized, put the number of missing at ten and said they were all feared dead. They confirmed one member of the crew, an engineer, had been rescued alive.

All crew members were South Korean.

 

They said the vessel, Chuk-yang-ho, was owned by a South Korean shipping company based in the southern port of Pusan and was carrying a highly flamable chemical in addition to liquefied petroleum gas.

The coast guard has banned all shipping within a two-mile (3.2 km) radius of the capsized vessel.

The ship was now lying partially submerged in the water with only its bow visible, police said.