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The heavily-decomposed bodies of two men, possibly North Korean fishermen, have been found on a beach in central Japan, alongside the wreckage of a boat, police said Monday.
The discovery comes just days after a group of eight fishermen, who claim to be from North Korea, washed up on Japan's northern coast.
"There were two bodies separately found on the edge of the surf over the weekend," on Sado island in Niigata prefecture, senior local police official Hideaki Sakyo told AFP.
One of the bodies was found early Saturday, with the second corpse discovered Sunday by passers-by who were walking along the beach, which is some 750 kilometres (465 miles) east of North Korea, he said.
The bodies had decomposed significantly and "there was nothing nearby left that helped identify them," he said.
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The discovery comes just days after a group of eight fishermen, who claim to be from North Korea, washed up on Japan's northern coast.
"There were two bodies separately found on the edge of the surf over the weekend," on Sado island in Niigata prefecture, senior local police official Hideaki Sakyo told AFP.
One of the bodies was found early Saturday, with the second corpse discovered Sunday by passers-by who were walking along the beach, which is some 750 kilometres (465 miles) east of North Korea, he said.
The bodies had decomposed significantly and "there was nothing nearby left that helped identify them," he said.
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