11 killed in mutiny

TOKYO - Japan's Maritime Safety Agency said yesterday that 11 South Korean and Indonesian seamen had been killed in an apparent…

TOKYO - Japan's Maritime Safety Agency said yesterday that 11 South Korean and Indonesian seamen had been killed in an apparent mutiny aboard a Honduras registered fishing boat in the South Pacific.

A surviving South Korean crew member told the patrol boat by radio that "trouble" occurred on the Pesca Mar on August 2nd, leading to the death of seven South Koreans, three Indonesians and one Chinese.

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