Jakarta: Thirty-one people have been rescued and 11 are still missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank ashore in bad weather Indonesiaan official said on Monday.
Local tugboat and fisherman KM. brought many of the survivors to shore after Ladang Partivi drowned while sailing through Makassar Strait In South Sulawesi province on Thursday.
“So far 31 people have been rescued alive and we are still searching for 11 more people who are still missing,” the head of the local search and rescue team said. JunaidiSome who prefer Indonesians to only one name, told AFP on Monday.
“They have now returned home and are in generally good health,” he said.
Junaidi said rescue teams have deployed a helicopter and increased the search area to 20 nautical miles from where the boat sank in search of the missing.
He said the ship was not allowed to carry passengers and both the captain and the owner of the ship have been taken for questioning.
No official passenger manifesto was kept common in a country where crews sometimes sell illegal tickets in excess of the official capacity of ships, but officials have said they believe the boat sank. People were on board.
Maritime accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago of about 17,000 islands, where safety standards are often lax.
In May, a boat carrying more than 800 people got stuck in shallow waters off East Nusa Tenggara province for two days before being ejected. no one was hurt.
In 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a boat capsized in one of the world’s deepest lakes on the island of Sumatra.
Local tugboat and fisherman KM. brought many of the survivors to shore after Ladang Partivi drowned while sailing through Makassar Strait In South Sulawesi province on Thursday.
“So far 31 people have been rescued alive and we are still searching for 11 more people who are still missing,” the head of the local search and rescue team said. JunaidiSome who prefer Indonesians to only one name, told AFP on Monday.
“They have now returned home and are in generally good health,” he said.
Junaidi said rescue teams have deployed a helicopter and increased the search area to 20 nautical miles from where the boat sank in search of the missing.
He said the ship was not allowed to carry passengers and both the captain and the owner of the ship have been taken for questioning.
No official passenger manifesto was kept common in a country where crews sometimes sell illegal tickets in excess of the official capacity of ships, but officials have said they believe the boat sank. People were on board.
Maritime accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago of about 17,000 islands, where safety standards are often lax.
In May, a boat carrying more than 800 people got stuck in shallow waters off East Nusa Tenggara province for two days before being ejected. no one was hurt.
In 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a boat capsized in one of the world’s deepest lakes on the island of Sumatra.