Mokpo Coastguard

Five crew members were missing and five others were rescued after a Chinese fishing boat capsized off South Korea's southern coast today, the South Korean coastguard said.

South Korea's coastguard denied that divers had entered a capsized ferry on Friday in a bid to locate any survivors from an accident that appears to have claimed the lives of hundreds of passengers, many of them schoolchildren.

Five crew members were missing and five others were rescued after a Chinese fishing boat capsized off South Korea's southern coast today, the South Korean coastguard said.

South Korea's coastguard denied that divers had entered a capsized ferry on Friday in a bid to locate any survivors from an accident that appears to have claimed the lives of hundreds of passengers, many of them schoolchildren.