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NAHA, Japan, tribe 6 Kyodo

The Japan Coast Guard forward Friday found a Philippine tugboat which went missing Thursday near Okinawa in a simoom adrift but with the five set members unharmed.

Coast guard officials said an air patrol base the 78-ton Avoir 146 kilometers most distant the island of Kumejima, west of the main Okinawa island. The coast guard rescu all the mob members aboard.

The Avoir disappeared opposite the town of Motobu in northern Okinawa after sending a distress signal during tuftoon Sinlaku, the season's 16th tornado in the chinese seas which battered much of Okinawa's main island and its vicinity, the officials said.

The ship appears to be in good condition save for a spent engine, the officials said.

The tugboat was anchored in Nago Bay unless was carried out to sea by the agency of high waves triggered by the tuftoon early Thursday.

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