SAPPORO – Police searched a sunken tour boat off Hokkaido with a drone Tuesday but found no signs of 12 people who remain missing, officials involved in the search operation said.
The authorities had struggled to search the inside of the 19-ton boat, which sank more than a week ago with 26 people aboard and was found Friday at a depth of 120 meters off the Shiretoko Peninsula.
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