On board were 132 people. Emergency services have confirmed the death of 54 people, 63 passengers were rescued – gives the BBC . Rescued in serious condition due to hypothermia were taken to hospitals in the city of Magadan.
Source: RUPTLY / x-news
The 78 members of the crew had Russian citizenship, other people are foreigners from Burma, Vanuatu, Latvia and Ukraine.
Victor Klepikow, who runs the rescue operation, told Reuters that the process of extracting the bodies continues. – At the moment we do not know what could be the cause of the crash – he added. At the crash site works more than 26 rescue ships.
The agency TASS, citing a government official Sergei Chabrowa Kamchatka country, informs, however, that the probable cause of the crash was a violation of the catch.
– According to the first information given by the second mate of the ship, trawler “Dalnij Vostok” sank during the extraction of a 100-ton network with fish. Networks prevailed and led to a sharp tilt of the ship. Trawler took a full load, which rolled down the side, and led to the tilt of the ship. Sank within tens of seconds. No one had time to send a distress signal – Khabarov said.
Russian fishing trawler “Dalnij Vostok” (“Far East”) sank in the Sea of Okhotsk, approx. 330 km west of the village Krutogorowski circuit Kamchatsky and 250 km south of Magadan.
Disaster at Sea of Okhotsk. Place the sinking of a trawler
Fig. via RT
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