Japan’s coastguard rescued one person in the search for a cargo ship carrying livestock that went missing in the East China Sea after

issuing a distress signal during typhoon Maysak. The storm has killed one person in neighbouring South Korea and forced 2,000 others to be evacuated from their homes.

The Panamanian-registered vessel, called Gulf Livestock 1, sent the distress call from the East China Sea, to the west of Amami Oshima Island in south-western Japan, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.

The vessel departed Napier in New Zealand on 14 August with 5,867 cattle on board, New Zealand’s foreign ministry told Reuters.

A spokeswoman for the coastguard said one person was rescued on Wednesday night (Tokyo time) during the search for the ship after being spotted adrift wearing a life jacket.

The vessel was en route to the Port of Jingtang in Tangshan, China, with an estimated journey of approximately 17 days, it said.