TOKYO: Five people were unaccounted for Wednesday after a South Korea-flagged chemicals tanker with 11 people on board capsized in rough seas off Japan, the coastguard said.

Six members of the crew — which included two South Koreans, eight Indonesians and one Chinese — had been rescued so far, and the coastguard is "still searching for the remaining five," a spokesman told Agence France-Presse.

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