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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The ferry sank off the carousel, 9 killed and 287 People

The ferry sank off the carousel, 9 killed and 287 People

Nine people were killed and 287 people again have not been found after the passenger ship carrying 480 people, mostly high school students, upside down on the coast of South Korea, Wednesday (16/4), said the local media.

As many as nine people--a member of the ship's crew, five high school students, two teachers and a passenger--have been confirmed dead at around 11: 00 local time, Thursday.

As many as 180 people were saved and 287 people have not been found, according to information from the central disaster relief headquarters in South Korea.

Passengers on the ship that sank include 325 students and 15 high school teachers who are doing field trips for four days.

The ship departed from the port city of Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday night (3/4), to the island of Jeju in the southern part of the country.

Among the passengers were rescued, 78 are students from a high school in Ansan Danwon, a suburb of Seoul--South Korea's capital city. Nearly 70 percent of the people on the ship was coming from the high school.

Divers launched five rescue mission on Wednesday night to reach the hull that sank it in order to find the missing people, according to the Xinhua report.

But the strong current and poor visibility in the sea hampered the rescue operation, said Kang Out-kyu, Minister of Public Administration and Security, which is coordinating relief efforts.

As many as 555 diver Navy and Coast Guard are working on site, and 29 aircraft as well as helicopters and rescue boats were sent 169 to join in the search operation.

Kang said 101 people were sent to nearby hospitals to be treated--five of them suffered severe injuries.

The number of casualties is expected to increase because more than 250 passengers have not been found nearly one day after ships with weighting 6.825 tons of it, "Sewol", capsized and sank off the island of Jindo Island, near the tip of South-Korea Peninsula, at about 11: 30 a.m. local time, Wednesday.

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