Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Authorities have found at least five bodies in the remnants of a wooden boat that washed ashore on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. They believe the boat is from North Korea.
According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, police found the bow of the boat close to shore in Sado City Friday. Investigators with the Coast Guard and police found several partially decomposed bodies inside the vessel during a Saturday-morning investigation.