The body of the captain of a South Korean fishing boat that capsized after colliding with a foreign-flagged vessel was recovered Friday off the country's southwest coast, raising the death toll to two, Cost Guard said.
The body of the 59-year-old captain, identified only by his surname Kim, was found floating some 16 kilometers off the country's resort island of Jeju, about 12 km away from where the incident took place at around 12:30 p.m., it said. The body was transferred to a hospital on the island.
The 19-ton ship with nine crew members aboard capsized Thursday afternoon after crashing into the 96,000 ton Liberia-flagged vessel in waters about 26 kilometers northwest of the small islet of Biyang near the southern resort island, it said.
Five were rescued. The body of another crew member was found late Thursday, but the other two fishermen are still missing. (Yonhap)
