Families of missing Pinoy seafarers request rescue operations to continue

Families of missing Pinoy seafarers request rescue operations to continue
Leslie Ann Aquino September 10, 2020 https://mb.com.ph/2020/09/10/families-of-missing-pinoy-seafarers-request...

The families of the 36 Filipino seafarers onboard a missing Panama-registered cargo ship that sank off the coast of Japan last week want the search and rescue operations to still continue, according to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III.

“They requested that the rescue operation be not stopped,” he said in an interview Thursday.

According to Bello, the families told him this when he informed them of the information he received from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Osaka that the Japanese Coastguard already stopped the search and rescue operations of the missing crew members.

On Saturday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the government is extending all necessary assistance to the survivors and the families of the missing Filipino crew members of the ill-fated cargo ship.

The Gulf Livestock 1 was carrying cattle and 43 crew members, including 39 Filipino nationals. Three Filipino crewmen were later found, one dead and two survivors.