Police are conducting an intensive search in the waters of Wakkanai City, which is about 300 kilometers away from the scene, in order to search for clues to 12 people whose whereabouts are unknown due to the sinking accident of a tourist boat off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido.
The accident in which the sightseeing boat "KAZU 1" (19 tons) sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula in April killed 14 passengers and the whereabouts of 12 are still unknown.
In this accident, a body that could be a passenger was found in Sakhalin, which is far away, and police began an intensive search on the 26th in the waters of Wakkanai City, which is about 300 kilometers northwest of the sinking site. ..
In the morning, 15 police officers gathered at the port of Bakkai in the city and offered silence in the direction of Shiretoko, where the tour boat sank.
After that, I was divided into two groups, sea and land, and started searching for the missing person.
Police officers boarded a boat to search near the coast, and walked along the coastline looking for wreckage.
"Three months have passed since the accident, but many people haven't been able to return to their families and haven't found any clues. I want to do it. "
This intensive search will continue until the 28th.