Search and rescue continues overnight for missing crew members from capsized trawler

Search and rescue efforts continued overnight for 5 missing crew members, after a fishing boat capsized off the south coast.

The Korea Coast Guard has deployed more than 40 patrol ships, civilian fishing boats and aircraft to find the remaining people.

In the early hours of Sunday, the hundred-39 ton Seogyeong trawler carrying 14 crew members sunk off the coast of Yeosu, in the south of the country.

Two Vietnamese and two Indonesian nationals were found in a lifeboat nearby, while 5 other crew members have been reported dead.

Though authorities are still determining the exact cause, rescued crew members stated that the vessel suddenly tilted over.