DPA/Jakarta
Sixteen more bodies were found yesterday after a ferry sank off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island at the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 23, an official said.
At least 54 people were still missing after the Marina Baru sank about 22 kilometres from its destination port in Siwa on Saturday, said Alamsyah, a local disaster management official.
Forty-one people survived the accident, but only two of those survivors were found on Tuesday, leading to fears that most of the other passengers are dead.
The fibreglass ship departed Saturday morning from Kolaka in North Sulawesi for Siwa on what should have been a six-hour journey.
The crew sent a distress signal after huge waves damaged the ship and caused its engine to stall, officials said.
Rescue team members and soldiers unload the body of a victim of the sunken ferry Marina Baru at the Shiva hospital in Wajo, Indonesia’s South Sulawesi
