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One crew member is missing after a passenger ferry caught fire off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Everyone else onboard was rescued after
One crew member is missing after a passenger ferry caught fire off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
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Everyone else onboard was rescued after taking to life rafts. They were picked up by nearby boats.
Back on dry land, passengers recalled a terrifying ordeal.
“The smoke and heat were terrible. The fire was really intense,” said one man.
The fire reportedly broke out on a truck, on a lower cargo deck.
The ferry was around 50 kilometres away from its destination of Tomakomai.
The missing crew member is believed to have stayed onboard to tackle the flames.
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