Desperate search for crew of ship sunk in typhoon off Japan


Coast guards rescuing a Filipino man off Amami Oshima island, about 120km northwest of the sea. - AFP

TOKYO (AFP): Japanese coast guard rescuers searched Thursday (Sept 3) for the remaining 42 crew of a ship believed to have sunk in a typhoon, after a lone survivor was found bobbing in a lifejacket.

The Gulf Livestock 1, which was carrying a cargo of nearly 6,000 cows, issued a distress call in the early hours of Wednesday from a position 185km west of Japan's Amami Oshima island.

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