3 Japan boat crew dead after collision with Russian ship in Okhotsk sea

A Japanese fishing boat collided with a 662-ton Russian ship and capsized off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Wednesday, leaving three crew members dead, Report mentions, referring to Kyodo.

The five-crew-member Hokko Maru No. 8 belonging to a fishery cooperative based in Hokkaido's Mombetsu was catching hairy crabs when the collision occurred at around 6 a.m., according to the Japan Coast Guard. One of the two crew members rescued alive was slightly injured.

The Russian vessel Amur with 23 crew members transported seafood to Mombetsu from Sakhalin in Russia's Far East.

The five men, three of them showing no vital signs, were taken from the sea by the Amur and then brought back by the coast guard to their homeport, roughly 23 kilometers away from the accident site, at around 10 a.m. Later, they were confirmed dead.