At least 54 people have died and 15 are missing after a Russian trawler sank late on Wednesday in the western Pacific ocean near the Kamchatka Peninsula, news agencies have reported.
There were 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler when it went down in waters close to freezing, the TASS news agency reported, citing an officer at a maritime rescue coordination centre in the area.
“We have recovered the bodies of 54 victims. Sixty-three crew members have been rescued alive,” Russian news agency Tass reported rescuers as saying. Fifteen were still missing.
Sixty-three people were rescued from the sea and from lifeboats, many of them suffering hypothermia.
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