Israeli court convicts seaman over Japanese fishermen's deaths

JERUSALEM, Israel - A court in Haifa, Israel, sentenced Pilastro Zdravko, the Montenegrin second officer of the Israeli container ship Jim Asia, to two and a half years in prison, suspended for three years, on Nov. 12 for causing through negligence the deaths of seven Japanese fishermen in a collision last year with the Japanese fishing boat Shinsei Maru No. 3 off Nemuro in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Zdravko was in charge of navigation on the ship in place of the skipper when the collision occurred.

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