6 Rescued After Month Adrift in Indian Ocean
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CANBERRA, Australia — Six seamen from a Philippine-registered freighter that sank in a storm July 4 were rescued by a passing supertanker in the Indian Ocean off Australia’s west coast, officials said Wednesday.
Vincent Daly, a spokesman for the Canberra-based Sea Safety Center, said the six survivors, mostly Filipinos, from the freighter Singa Sea were picked up Tuesday by the supertanker Standard Virtue about 200 miles west of Perth, Australia. He said they were suffering from burns and exposure.
Eighteen of the Singa Sea’s crew of 25 died when it went down, and another died during the month in the lifeboat, the center said.
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