Pacific / Fiji

Missing six found in Fiji

15:50 pm on 20 March 2019

Six people including four fisheries officers and two tourists who went missing at sea on Monday off the Fiji island of Rotuma have been found.

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The Fiji Maritime Surveillance Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Suva said the group was rescued by a local police search and rescue team earlier today.

It said their boat capsized but they managed to swim to a nearby island where they were rescued by the police team