{"id":51258,"date":"2019-11-19T15:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51258"},"modified":"2019-11-19T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:46:22","slug":"one-dead-11-unaccounted-for-as-s-korean-fishing-boat-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51258","title":{"rendered":"One Dead, 11 Unaccounted For As S.Korean Fishing Boat Catches Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, Nov 19 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8211; One sailor was confirmed dead, and 11 others unaccounted for, as a South Korean fishing boat caught fire, on Tuesday (today), in waters west of the country&#8217;s southern resort island of Jeju, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-tonne fishing vessel caught fire in waters some 76 km west of a small island, which is located near Jeju Island. It was reported to the police at about 7:05 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 60-year-old South Korean sailor was found in waters, some 7.4 km south of the accident scene, about three hours later, and airlifted to a hospital on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crew member was confirmed dead at the hospital, as he had no signs of breathing and pulse, while suffering a severe burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other 11 sailors, including five South Koreans and six Vietnamese, were still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navy and Coast Guard vessels, helicopters and aircraft, as well as, civilian boats were mobilised, but search and rescue operations had difficulty because of high waves and strong winds.&#8211; NNN-YONHAP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Nov 19 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8211; One sailor was confirmed dead, and 11 others unaccounted for, as a South Korean fishing boat caught fire, on Tuesday (today), in waters west of the country&#8217;s southern resort island of Jeju, according to local media reports. The 29-tonne fishing vessel caught fire in waters some 76 km west of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}