15 missing after fishing ship sinks

Fifteen people are missing while two others survived after a fishing ship sank off the archipelago’s eastern Maluku province, a local official said.

The ship, carrying 17 people, went down while fishing on Saturday.

Two crew members were rescued by another fishing vessel on Monday afternoon, according to Monce Brury, head of the search and rescue office of South-west Papua province.

Monce said the incident was discovered through accounts from the two survivors and that rescuers cited poor weather conditions and the ship’s condition as the cause of the incident. — Xinhua