Early Thursday, a Russian fishing trawler with 132 crew members sank rapidly into the frigid Sea of Oshotsk, in the Pacific Ocean near the Kamchatka Peninsula. Rescue workers and nearby fishing boats were able to rescue 63 crew and recover 54 bodies. "The rescue operation is going on, we are still looking for 15 people," local rescue coordinator Viktor Klepikov told Reuters. "At this time we do not know what might have caused the tragedy."
Most of the crew is Russian, but 42 are from Myanmar; the rest are from Latvia, Ukraine, and Vanuatu.
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