No sign of two missing Kiribati fishermen

KIRIBATI – Two Kiribati fishermen missing for four days are yet to be found. The men aged 30 and 45 left a village in Kiribati’s Nonouti atoll on a six-metre aluminium boat early on Wednesday to fish off the south end of the atoll.

An Air Force Orion is seasrching an area which spans over 120,000 square kilometres.

A spokesman said they so far had no luck in finding them and the search crew was now at an airfield in the Pacific while the rescue co-ordination centre considered what to do next.

It appears the boat did not have a distress beacon.

- RNZI