At least 2 dead after a fishing boat sinks off South Korea's Jeju island

SEOUL, South Korea — 

A sportfishing vessel capsized and sank disconnected the seashore of South Korea's Jeju land connected Friday, leaving astatine slightest 2 radical dormant and 12 others unaccounted for, seashore defender officials said.

Nearby sportfishing vessels managed to propulsion 15 unit members retired of the water, but 2 of them were aboriginal pronounced dormant aft being brought to shore. The different 13 did not prolong life-threatening injuries, said Kim Han-na, an authoritative astatine Jeju's seashore guard.

She said 27 unit members -– 16 South Koreans and 11 Indonesians -– were connected the 129-ton boat, which near Jeju's Seogwipo larboard precocious Thursday to drawback mackerel.

The seashore defender received a distress awesome astatine astir 4:30 a.m. Friday from a adjacent sportfishing vas that conducted rescue efforts arsenic the vessel sank astir 22 kilometers northwest of the island. The rescuers were slowed by beardown winds and waves of astir 2 meters.

At slightest 30 vessels and 13 craft from South Korea's seashore guard, police, occurrence work and subject were deployed arsenic of Friday greeting to hunt for survivors. They were being assisted by 13 civilian vessels.

Jung Moo-won, Jeju seashore guard's manager of information and safety, said rescue workers person confirmed the determination of the sunken vessel and person dispatched divers to hunt the vessel.

The 2 unit members who died were South Koreans. Of the 13 survivors, 9 were Indonesians, Jung said. Among the 12 missing, 10 were South Koreans. Jung said South Korean officials contacted the Indonesian Embassy to scope the families of the Indonesia unit members.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called for officials to mobilize each disposable resources to find and rescue the missing unit members, his bureau said.