{"id":4010,"date":"2020-12-28T07:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T07:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=143890"},"modified":"2020-12-28T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T07:02:28","slug":"17-people-missing-after-russian-fishing-boat-sinks-in-barents-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/28\/17-people-missing-after-russian-fishing-boat-sinks-in-barents-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"17 People Missing After Russian Fishing Boat Sinks In Barents Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CB22D164-59CD-4701-8AA7-38AF136CFF40_w1200_r1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Russian authorities say a fishing boat has sunk in the Arctic Ocean, leaving 17 people missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 7:30 a.m., information was received that the Onega vessel\u2026had sunk in the Barents Sea near Novaya Zemlya in the Arkhangelsk region. The crew had 19 people. Two people were rescued,&#8221; the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on December 28, adding that searches are under way.<\/p>\n<p>At least four boats were sent to look for potential survivors, according to Russian news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The source said the two rescued sailors were wearing wetsuits.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary information, ice accumulation led to the sinking of the fishing boat.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by Reuters, Reuters, and TASS<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/28\/17-people-missing-after-russian-fishing-boat-sinks-in-barents-sea\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian authorities say a fishing boat has sunk in the Arctic Ocean, leaving 17 people missing. \u201cAt 7:30 a.m., information was received that the Onega vessel\u2026had sunk in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}