South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft are searching for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized off the country's south-western coast.
Survivors said the boat's engine room had quickly filled with water before the 24-tonne vessel tipped overThe coast guard from the south-western port city of Mokpo said that three crew members were rescued by a nearby commercial vessel following the accident late Saturday near Daebichi Island in the sea county of Sinan.
Officials were planning to salvage the boat, but it wasn't known whether the nine missing crew members would be inside. South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft were searching for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized.
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