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A South
Korean cargo ship has sunk after an explosion on board, killing at least three
crew members, the coast guard says.
Eight people
are still missing and five others have been rescued in the incident north of
Jawol island, near the port of Incheon.
The blast
happened in the morning after the ship had unloaded oil products.
The cause
is being investigated, but officials say it is unlikely to be the result of an
attack by North Korea.
"The
explosion took place far below the sea border with North Korea. We see very
little possibility (of attacks by the North)," a coastguard spokesman told
the AFP news agency.
The ship's
owners said that the explosion could have been caused by gases leaking from the
ship's oil tanks.
"We
believe that something went wrong during the process to take out remaining gas
in the oil tank," an official of Doora Shipping told Japan's Yonhap news
agency.
"The
vessel usually transports diesel, but this time it carried gasoline. We are now
examining whether it had any relation to the explosion," the official
said.
The dead
crew members included two Burmese nationals and one South Korean.
The search
for the missing is continuing.
The
4,191-tonne freight ship had 16 crew members on board - 11 South Koreans and
five Burmese.
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