Volunteer fishermen who were searching for missing people found what appeared to be human bones on the coast of Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, near the site of the sinking accident of a sightseeing boat that occurred in April this year.
The police are proceeding with confirmation as there is a possibility of a person who is missing.
In April, 14 passengers died in the sinking accident of the sightseeing boat "KAZU 1" off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula, and the whereabouts of 12 people are still unknown.
According to the police, before noon on the 14th, a group of fisherman Kenji Sakurai from the town of Rausu, who was conducting a volunteer search at the tip of the Shiretoko Peninsula, found a human skull on the coast of Keikichi Bay near Cape Shiretoko. I found something and called the police.
Women's underwear, sneakers, socks, etc. were also found nearby, but they were handed over to the police by the group who returned to Rausu on the 15th because there was nothing that could identify them.
Keikichi Bay, where this discovery was made, is about 13 kilometers northeast of the accident site near Kashuni Falls, and about 1 kilometer from Cape Shiretoko, where a series of missing people were found the day after the accident.
The police believe that there is a possibility that there is a person who is missing, and will proceed with confirmation, and will consider searching again in the vicinity of the discovery site in the future.
The fisherman who discovered
Kenji Sakurai, a member of the search group and a fisherman in Rausu, said what appeared to be human bones was found on the shore of Keikichi Bay.
In addition, jeans, women's underwear, and sneakers were found one after another in the grass about 10 meters away, and the group collected and brought them back.
The group had searched the same location two months earlier, but were unsuccessful.
Mr. Sakurai said, ``I can't say right now whether it was a person involved in the accident, and I don't know if it was a relic.
On top of that, he said, "There are still people who haven't been found, and I don't think it will end unless we find all of them. If we were bereaved families, we would want to go to the scene and look for them, so we are doing it with that thought." rice field.