３人の遺体引き渡し　海保巡視船、サハリンで―知床沈没事故

　北海道・知床半島沖で２６人が乗った観光船「ＫＡＺＵ　I（カズワン）」が沈没した事故で、第１管区海上保安本部（小樽市）の巡視船「つがる」が９日、ロシア・サハリンのコルサコフ港に入り、北方領土・国後島などで見つかった乗船者とみられる３人の遺体を引き取った。１０日朝に小樽港に戻る予定。
　国後島では５月に男女２人の遺体が、サハリンでは６月に男性１人の遺体が見つかったとロシア側から連絡があった。海保関係者によると、ロシア側でのＤＮＡ型鑑定の結果、乗客乗員のＤＮＡ型と一致した。（2022/09/09-12:14）

The three bodies of apparent victims of the sinking of a Japanese tour boat in April were handed over to the Japanese side from Russia on Friday.
   The patrol ship Tsugaru of the Japan Coast Guard's 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, which mainly covers the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, arrived at a port in Korsakov in Sakhalin in the Russian Far East around 7:30 a.m. on the day.
   After its crew members picked up the bodies, the Tsugaru left the port around 10:15 a.m. The vessel is expected to return the port of Otaru in Hokkaido on Saturday morning, according to the regional headquarters.
   The bodies of a man and a woman were discovered on Kunashiri, one of the four Russian-controlled northwestern Pacific islands claimed by Japan, in May, and the body of a man was found in Sakhalin in June.
   A Russian analysis has found that the DNA types of the three bodies matched those of people who were aboard the Kazu I sightseeing boat, which sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido on April 23, according to sources in the JCG.