Two crew were confirmed dead and nine others were missing Wednesday after their cargo ship sank in rough waters between Japan and South Korea, Japanese authorities said.
Coast guards from the two countries, joined by military aircraft and a private vessel, located 13 of the 22 people who were onboard the Jin Tian, a Japan coast guard official said.
But Japanese medical authorities later confirmed two of those retrieved were dead, the official told AFP.
The crew were from China and Myanmar, but the precise identities of the dead, rescued and missing remained unclear, he said
