“Rescuers searched for 43 people on Thursday, who disappeared in a stormy sea after a ferry transported 65 people sank near Bali’s resort island in Indonesia. Source: AR with reference to the local search and rescue service and police details: the ferry was sank almost half an hour after sailing from the port of Katapala in Eastern Java.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: AR with reference to the local search and rescue service and police
Details: The ferry was sank almost half an hour after sailing from the port of Katapapons in Eastern Java. He headed to the port of Gilimanuk in Bali, whose distance is 50 kilometers.
Advertising:
There were 53 passengers, 12 crew members and 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.
The publication states that two bodies were found and 20 people were rescued, many of them were unconscious after drifting in stormy waters for several hours.
AR adds that in the evening of Nine Nine boats, including two tugboats and two inflatable boats, looking for missing people, fighting up to 2 meters high in the dark.
At the same time, the publication adds that tragedies with ferries are a common phenomenon in Indonesia, archipelagoes of more than 17,000 islands, where ferries are often used as a vehicle, and safety rules are not always observed.