MAGADAN, April 7. /TASS/. The Russian Emergencies Ministry continues searching for 13 missing sailors from the Dalny Vostok trawler which sank last week in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, the ministry's press service said on Tuesday.
A Beriev Be-200 multipurpose amphibious aircraft is searching the Sea of Okhotsk, the ministry said.
Some 25 fishing vessels operating in the area are also involved in the search which has so far yielded no results.
A total of 56 bodies of the crew members have been recovered from the waters of around zero degrees. Another 63 people have been rescued.
The total area being searched has spanned around 35,000 square kilometers since the effort started on April 2.
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