Freighter sinks off Taiwan during typhoon, nine crew missing

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's fire department said on Thursday that a Tanzania-flagged freighter with nine Myanmar nationals on board had sunk off the coast of the southern port city of Kaohsiung during a typhoon and there had been no response from the crew.

Search efforts were ongoing, it added in a statement.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

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