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8 bodies recovered after cargo ship founders in Pacific

KOCHI, Japan - The photo, taken from a Kyodo News helicopter, shows a Japan Coast Guard ship on Jan. 8 rescuing a crew member of a cargo ship that sank the previous day in the Pacific Ocean off Kochi Prefecture. Five crew members of the Panamanian-registered 3,561-ton White Koowa, all Filipinos, have been rescued by coast guard patrol boats and another cargo ship. The bodies of eight crew members were found Jan. 8 and one remains missing. The surviving crew members said the ship, owned by a company in Ehime Prefecture, sank at around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 7. The vessel was transporting ore from Indonesia to Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.