6 months on, search continues for victims of Shiretoko boat tragedy

SAPPORO — With Sunday marking six months since a sightseeing boat sank o the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido with no survivors among the 26 passengers and crew members, authorities were engaged in an intensive search for the six whose remains have still not been found.

e 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters and Hokkaido prefectural police discovered 13 bone fragments during a search along the coast of the peninsula on Saturday. at came a er the discovery of three bone fragments on Oct. 21.

About 30 police o cers, rescue workers and others scoured the area on foot along the shore or by diving in the nearby waters during the three-day-intensive search through Sunday.

e Kazu I sightseeing boat sank in April. (Oct. 24)

The Yomiuri Shimbun The tip of the Shiretoko Peninsula, where authorities conducted an intensive three-day search