MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say that four Coast Guard officers died and six others are missing after their boat overturned in rough seas near Japan.
The Investigative Committee, the nation’s main investigative agency, said the incident happened Saturday when a group of Coast Guard officers went to inspect a fishing vessel detained in the Yuzhno-Kurilskaya Bay off Kunashir Island on allegations of poaching in Russia’s territorial waters.
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