On Monday, an official said 31 people had been rescued and 11 were still missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank resulting from bad weather off the coast of Indonesia.
Local tugboats and fishermen brought many survivors to shore after the KM Ladang Pertiwi sank on Thursday while sailing through the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province.
“Thirty-one people have been rescued thus far and we’re still on the lookout for 11 more who’re still missing,” the pinnacle of the local search and rescue team, Djunaidi, who, like some Indonesians, uses just one name, said on Monday.
“They have now returned home and are generally in good health,” he added.
A ship sank in Indonesia – 26 people missing
A ship sank in Indonesia – 26 people missing
Rescuers dispatched a helicopter and expanded the search area to twenty nautical miles from where the boat sank as a part of the seek for the missing people, Djunaidi said.
He added that the ship didn’t have a permit to hold passengers, and due to this fact each the captain and the ship’s owner were taken for questioning.
No official passenger list was kept – which is common in a rustic where crews sometimes sell illegal tickets beyond the ship’s official capability – but authorities say they consider there have been 42 people on board when the boat sank.
Maritime accidents are a standard occurrence within the Southeast Asian archipelago of some 17,000 islands, where safety standards are sometimes lax.
In May, a ferry carrying greater than 800 people ran aground in shallow waters off the coast of East Nusa Tenggara province and was stuck for 2 days before being refloated. Nothing happened to anyone.
In 2018, over 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in certainly one of the world’s deepest lakes in Sumatra.
