Russian FGs Run Aground Near Aomori

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Tass: Japan coast guards rescue 28 Russians from dry cargo ship
A dry cargo ship flying the Cambodian flag with a crew of 28 Russians on Friday ran aground near the Japanese Aomori prefecture in the north of Honshu Island. The local headquarters of the sea safety department told Itar-Tass the vessel Helena-2 with a displacement of nearly 3,000 tonnes was caught in a storm and stranded in shallow waters 50 metres northwest of Cape Kodomari. The ship loaded with a cargo of timber was bound from the Russian port of Nakhodka for the Onahama port located on the other side of Honshu in the Fukushima prefecture northeast of Tokyo.