
Two of the eight crew members rescued; six missing after vessel overturns
President Lee Jae Myung ordered the full mobilization of resources to rescue six missing crew members after a 286-ton tugboat capsized in waters off Busan, leaving two rescued and one unconscious.
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A 286-ton tugboat carrying eight crew members capsized in waters off the southeastern city of Busan.
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday ordered the mobilization of all available resources to rescue crew members after a tugboat capsized in waters off the southeastern city of Busan.
The 286-ton vessel, carrying eight crew members, overturned in waters off Busan at about 1:30 p.m. Two of them were subsequently rescued, but one of them remained unconscious, according to earlier reports. Six others remained missing as Coast Guard rescuers searched for them.
"Mobilize all available resources to rescue lives," presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung quoted Lee as instructing officials.
2์ผ ๋ถ์ฐ ์ค๋ฅ๋ ๋์ชฝ ํด์์์ 286t๊ธ ์์ธ์ Aํธ๊ฐ ์ ๋ณต๋์ด ์น์ ์ 8๋ช ์ค 1๋ช ์ด ์จ์ง๊ณ 6๋ช ์ด ์ค์ข ๋์ผ๋ฉฐ, 1๋ช ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋๋ค.

ํธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆ ํดํ์ ํต๊ณผํ๋ ์ฌ์ฐ๋ ๊ตญ์ ํด์ด์ฌ ๋ฐํ๋ฆฌ ์์ ์ ๋ฐ '์๋๋ฅด'ํธ๊ฐ ๋ณด์ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ก ํ๋ฆฌํ ๊ตญ์ ์น์กฐ์ 2๋ช ์ด ์ฌ๋งํ๋ค. ํด๋น ์ ๋ฐ๋ค์ ๋ฏธ์์ ๋ฐ์ฌ์ฒด ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฐ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธยท์ด๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฌด๋ ฅ ์ถฉ๋ ์์ค์ ๋ฒ์ด์ง ์ฌ๊ฑด์ด๋ค.

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