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Search on for missing vessel

- Evelyn Macairan -

MANILA, Philippines – A search has been launched for a Japanese fishing vessel with a crew of nine that lost contact after leaving Davao City last July 16.

Owner Sanko Pacific Tuna Inc. told the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) it has had no contact with the vessel Kaio Maru No. 5 since Saturday, when its crew of eight Filipinos and one Japanese radioed their last location at 95 kilometers northeast of Indonesia’s Talaud Islands.

PCG Cmdr. Roy Echeverria said Sanko’s sister company in Indonesia has dispatched six search vessels.

The fishing vessel left the port city of Davao on July 16 en route to Palau in the western Pacific.        

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DAVAO

DAVAO CITY

KAIO MARU NO

OWNER SANKO PACIFIC TUNA INC

PALAU

PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD

ROY ECHEVERRIA

SANKO

TALAUD ISLANDS

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