By Xinhua,
Jakarta : Eight people on board have gone missing after a small fishing ship sunk in the waters off Brebes town of Central Java province in Indonesia since Monday, rescue team said on Tuesday.
A rescuer from the town Ade Daniraharjo said that searching for those missing was underway on Tuesday.
“Eight people went missing on Monday, we keep searching them,” he told Xinhua in a telephone interview.
The rescuer said that the cause of the accident was the ages of the wooden ship, in which the woods have been decomposed.
Daniraharjo said that the searching had been carried out since Monday up to eight miles from the beach.
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