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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ten people died and eight others are believed to be missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea's southern coast.
Officials say three people were rescued and flown to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Dozens of ships are searching the area for survivors.
The 9.8-ton boat, Dolphin, lost communication with another boat on Saturday evening and was found Sunday morning north of the resort island of Jeju.
A survivor said the boat quickly capsized after being caught by nets for fish farms, according to a coast guard statement. Coast guard officers said that the exact cause of the capsizing is still unknown, and that weather conditions at the time of the incident weren't that bad.
Twenty-one people were believed to have been on board, including the ship's captain, who was among the 10 dead. The rest were passengers on a fishing trip, not professional fishermen.
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