ShafaqNews – Jakarta
At leastfour people died and 38 remain unaccounted for after a ferry sank on its way tothe Indonesian resort island of Bali, local police revealed on Thursday.
Thevessel, which was carrying 65 people — 53 passengers and 12 crew members — wentdown late Wednesday at around 23:20 local time (1520 GMT). By Thursday morning,rescue teams had recovered four bodies and brought 23 survivors to safety.
RamaSamtama Putra, police chief in the East Java city of Banyuwangi, confirmed thatsearch operations were still underway, with emergency crews working urgently tolocate the missing.
Moreover,President Prabowo Subianto activated an emergency response plan, instructingauthorities to deploy inflatable rescue boats to the site, followed by a largervessel dispatched from Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, to supportongoing operations.
Ferrytragedies are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands,where ferries are often used as transport and safety regulations can lapse.
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