JAPAN
<strong>Tourist boat wreck found</strong>
Authorities yesterday located the hull of a tour boat off the northern coast, the coast guard said, six days after the vessel disappeared in an accident that killed at least 14 people on a sightseeing trip. The hull of the Kazu I was found on the seabed at a depth of about 120m off Hokkaido in pitch-dark waters shown in footage from an underwater camera of the Maritime Self Defense Force, the coast guard said. The boat went missing on Saturday last week, several hours after departing for a tour of the peninsula, famed for its rugged
Rescuers retrieved a dozen bodies of women buried under tons of mud from a landslide that crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia s Sumatra island, police said Friday.
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