SHIP ON FIRE
This handout picture taken and released by the Japanese Coast Guard on Saturday shows a coast guard vessel (R) spraying water over the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines’s ferry “Sunflower Daisetsu” which caught fire on Friday off the coast of Tomakomai, Northern island of Hokkaido. AFP PHOTO
This handout picture taken and released by the Japanese Coast Guard on Saturday shows a coast guard vessel (R) spraying water over the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines’s ferry “Sunflower Daisetsu” which caught fire on Friday off the coast of Tomakomai, Northern island of Hokkaido. AFP PHOTO
TOKYO: Rescuers on Saturday launched an onboard search for a missing crewmember after a fire broke out on a ferry off the coast of northern Japan prompting the evacuation of dozens of passengers, the coastguard said.