TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s fire department said on Thursday that a Tanzania-flagged freighter with nine Myanmar nationals on board had sunk off the coast of the southern port city of Kaohsiung during a typhoon and there had been no response from the crew. Search efforts were ongoing, it added in a statement. (Reporting by Ben […]
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Freighter sinks off Taiwan during typhoon, nine crew missing
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s fire department said on Thursday that a Tanzania-flagged freighter with nine Myanmar nationals on board had sunk off the coast of the southern port city of Kaohsiung during a typhoon and there had been no response from the crew.
Search efforts were ongoing, it added in a statement.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Himani Sarkar)