22 RI crew missing as ship stranded<\/p>\n
Agencies, Tokyo<\/p>\n
Twenty-two crew members from an Indonesian ship went missing on
\nTuesday after their ship was believed to have hit rocks in the
\nstormy Seton Inland Sea in southwestern Yamaguchi prefecture
\nduring typhoon Songda, the Japan Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n
According to a spokesman at Japan Coast Gurad's Tokuyama
\noffice in Yamaguchi prefecture, a crewman of the 6,315-ton Tri
\nArdhiant made a radio call to the Coast Guard's Fukuoka office
\nnear Yamaguchi around 10:10 a.m. (8:10 a.m. in Jakarta) for help.<\/p>\n
According to the official, the crewman said that all crew were
\nabandoning the ship that was being battered by strong winds.<\/p>\n
\"We have not found the ship yet,\" the coast guard's official
\ntold Deutsche Presse-Agentur.<\/p>\n
\"We of course are most concerned about the fate of the crew,
\nbut the bad weather is hampering our search,\" said another
\nspokesman for the 6th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters.<\/p>\n
Three bodies were located nearby, but had not been identified
\nand were not yet linked to the storm, local police said.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian freighter departed from the city of Yokohama in
\nKanagawa prefecture near Tokyo on Saturday and was on its way to
\nHikari in Yamaguchi prefecture, the Coast Guard official said.<\/p>\n
Stormy seas also sank another ship, Blue Ocean, a Cambodia-
\nregistered freighter, carrying 18 Russian crew in western
\nHatsukaichi harbor. Two died and three were still missing, a
\nHiroshima Coast Guard Bureau spokesman said on condition of
\nanonymity.<\/p>\n
A 62-year-old man was buried in a mudslide in southern
\nKagoshima prefecture (state). He was rescued and taken to a
\nhospital, but later died, local police spokesman Masayuki Tajima
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The powerful typhoon Songda pounded western Japan on Tuesday,
\nknocking out power to more than a million households, forcing
\nthousands to evacuate and killing at least seven people. Twenty-
\nfive crew members from two cargo ships were missing.<\/p>\n
Across the country 580 people were injured, public broadcaster
\nNHK reported.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Songda was the record seventh typhoon to hit Japan
\nthis year - exceeding the six storms that lashed the country in
\n1990, the Meteorological Agency said.<\/p>\n
The typhoon was located 500 kilometers northwest of Tokyo as
\nof 7 p.m. (5 p.m. in Jakarta), moving northeast at a speed of 43
\nkilometers per hour in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).<\/p>\n
In South Korea heavy rains earlier lashed the southern
\nprovinces as the typhoon skirted Jeju island.<\/p>\n
A 60-year-old man was reported missing while trying to anchor
\na ship in the southern port city of Busan. Tens of thousands of
\nboats took shelter in Busan and other ports and flights and ferry
\nservices were canceled in the region.<\/p>",
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