Two people were killed and two others remain missing after an 18-ton fishing boat caught fire in the Pacific southeast of Tokyo, Japan Coast Guard officials said Wednesday.
A coast guard airplane spotted the tuna trawler Koei Maru, with a crew of two Japanese and three Indonesians, in flames about 180 km east-northeast of Hachijo Island after 2 p.m. Tuesday, the officials said.
The coast guard recovered the bodies of two people, rescued one of the Indonesian crew members and was searching for the others, the officials said.
The boat belongs to a fisheries cooperative in Kawaminami, Miyazaki Prefecture.
