2 dead, including teen girl, after boats carrying students capsize near site of new U.S. military base in Japan
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Two boats carrying 21 people capsized Monday off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base off Japan's southern island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and leaving two of them dead, officials said. In:
Two boats carrying 21 people capsized Monday off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base off Japan's southern island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and leaving two of them dead, officials said.
The Japan Coast Guard said 18 of them were students from a Kyoto high school on two boats, 10 on Heiwa Maru and eight on the smaller Fukutsu, to observe the Henoko area as part of their peace education program.
Coast guard rescuers pulled all 21 people out of the water, but a 17-year-old female student and the captain of Fukutsu were later pronounced dead, officials said. Two people were injured but their conditions were not life threatening.
The teenager was wearing a life jacket at the time of her death, a coast guard official told Agence France-Presse. A high-wave advisory was in place for Okinawa at the time of the accident, which occurred around 10 a.m., the official said.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, according to Coast guard officials.

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