Four more bodies were recovered Thursday from a sunken South Korean fishing ship in the Bering Sea, the foreign ministry here said.

This increased the toll to 16, including six South Koreans and 10 southeast Asian nationals, Xinhua reported. Among the 60 crew members aboard the ship, seven were saved and 37 are still missing.

The 1,753-tonne fishing vessel Oryong 501, which was catching pollock, sank in the western part of the Bering Sea near Russia Monday after which seven people were rescued.

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