2 wounded Japan Coast Guard members arrive at hospital

2 wounded Japan Coast Guard members arrive at hospital

AMAMI-OSHIMA, Japan - Two members of the Japan Coast Guard -- Yoshitake Kinjo (foreground) and Yoshiharu Nagatomo (background), who were injured in an exchange of fire with an unidentified ship believed to be from North Korea -- get out of an ambulance at a hospital in Naze on the island of Amami-Oshima in southwestern Japan. They were sent from the patrol ship Amami to Naze by helicopter.

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