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Bodies taken home
The bodies of six South Koreans who died from in the loss of the "Oryong 501" arrived in South Korea on Jan 11, 2015. They were among the 60 who were fishing for pollack in the western Bering Sea on Dec. 1, when the vessel sank after the crewmen failed to remove excess water from the ship during a storm.
Survivors arrived in Busan
Six Philippine and Indonesian survivors of the "Oryong 501" arrived in Busan on Dec 26, along with the bodies of those killed in the accident on Dec. 1. Six Philippine and Indonesian crewmen and one Russian inspector aboard the trawler survived the sinking, while 26 others remained missing. The survivors, emerging from the Russian ship hand-in-hand, were to undergo a two-day interrogation about the sinking at the Coast Guard from Dec 27 after having health check-ups at a local hospital. The bodies of the dead foreign crewmen were sent to their home countries after identification. South Korea sent three Coast Guard officials to Russia on Dec 24 to question the Russian survivor about the sinking and the evacuation process. The investigation will be focused on what delayed the evacuation as well as the circumstances of the vessel's sinking. All the South Korean and Russian rescue ships were set to end their rescue operations in the western Bering Sea at the end of December.
Search for victims going on
Search operations for the missing victims of the sinking pof the "Oryong 501" continued even though no bodies have been found recently. Search and retrieval operations continued among South Korea, the United States and Russia. Among those missing were five Filipinos, 16 Indonesians and five Koreans. The survivors and remains of the deceased victims were being transported to Busan. The Russian vessel "Odin", which was carrying the survivors as well as the bodies of the fatalities, left for Busan on Dec 12 and was expected to arrive there on Dec 22.
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