Tokyo. Five people have been rescued and one person is still missing when a tugboat caught fire on Friday near Miyako Island in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, local media reported.
The Miyakojima Coast Guard Office received a report of the fire at around 8:15 am local time. Later, a Japan Coast Guard aircraft found five of the six Japanese crew members in a life raft near the scene. It is said that they did not cause any life-threatening injuries to anyone.
It is reported that the search for the remaining one of the missing crew members is ongoing.