INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Four people died, 30 were missing and 31 survived after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near the Indonesian island of Bali, the country’s
Search and Rescue agency said on Thursday, as rescuers raced to find victims in the rough sea, Reuters reported.
The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya
sank almost half an hour after leaving East Java province’s Banyuwangi port on its way to Bali late on Wednesday, the agency said on
Thursday.
The boat was carrying 53 passengers and 12 crew members, as well as 22 vehicles, the agency said.
A search for the missing is
underway although it is being hampered by strong currents and winds, the agency said, adding it had deployed a helicopter to the location
and 13 underwater rescuers.
Video provided by the national rescue agency Basarnas showed what appeared to be the body of one person being
carried to shore from a fishing boat in calm seas.
There has been no official statement on the nationalities of the passengers, but a
manifest list broadcast by news channel MetroTV indicated there were no foreigners on board, read the report.
Ferries are a common mode of
transport in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, and accidents are common as lax safety standards often allow vessels to
be overloaded without adequate life-saving equipment.
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