Third crewmember from capsized cattle ship off Japan found
by Justin McCurry in Tokyo, Eleanor Ainge Roy in Quee from on (#57QRK)
Search continues for other survivors from ship that hit trouble en route from New Zealand to China
A third crewman from a cargo ship carrying 6,000 cattle that capsized off south-west Japan has been found.
A search plane spotted the Filipino crewman waving for help from a life raft about a mile off Kodakarajima, a small island in Japan's southern Kagoshima prefecture. Rescuers also found an overturned orange lifeboat a little further off Kodakarajima, but no one was in it.
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