China News Service, January 26. According to the website of the Chinese Consulate General in Fukuoka, at 12:30 on January 26, Beijing time, Lu Guijun, the Consul General in Fukuoka, contacted China International on the sinking of a Hong Kong-registered freighter in the waters near Nagasaki, Japan. TV station CGTN video connection and interview.
Lu Guijun said that after the accident happened in the early hours of the 25th, the Chinese ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou and the embassy in Japan attached great importance to it and immediately made a series of deployments. The Chinese Consulate General in Fukuoka and the Consulate General in Nagasaki cooperated closely and took full action , working 24 hours a day, and repeatedly asked the Japanese search and rescue department to do their best to search and rescue, and never give up lightly.
As of noon on the 26th, among the 13 crew members who have been searched, 5 are not life-threatening, and 4 of them are Chinese crew members; 8 crew members have been confirmed dead, of which 6 are Chinese crew members.
For the unfortunate victims, the Consulate General in Fukuoka expresses its deep condolences.
The front working group of the Consulate General in Fukuoka, appointed by Ambassador Kong Xuanyou to Japan, visited the four rescued Chinese crew members on the morning of the 26th, conveyed Ambassador Kong Xuanyou's condolences, and sent them clothes and food, and arranged for them to return home as soon as possible.
The working group assisted the Japanese side in confirming the identities of the victims and expressed deep condolences to the victims.
The working group also held talks with the Japanese search and rescue department, asking the Japanese side to make every effort to search and rescue the other nine missing crew members, and to deal with the aftermath of the victims.