Russia on Monday searched for a cargo ship with at least eight crew on board and carrying 700 tonnes of gold ore that went missing off the country's east coast in stormy conditions, officials said. Three ships carried out a search of the icy Okhotsk Sea, while poor weather grounded rescuers in a plane and a helicopter, the emergency ministry for the far eastern Khabarovsk region said.
The ship, the Amurskaya, was travelling to the Shantar Islands in the Okhotsk Sea, which lies east of the Khabarovsk region and north of Japan's Hokkaido island, when it went missing on Sunday afternoon.