15 missing, 2 rescued after fishing ship sinks off eastern Indonesia

JAKARTA: Fifteen people have been missing and two others have survived after a fishing ship sank off Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province, a local official said on Tuesday.

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 Southwest Papua province.

Brury 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