JAKARTA, Indonesia – Thirty-one people have been rescued and 11 are still missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia, an official said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT“Until now 31 people have been rescued alive and we are still looking for 11 more people who are still missing,” head of local search and rescue team Djunaidi, who like some Indonesians goes by only one name, told AFP on Monday. Rescuers have deployed a helicopter and extended the search area to 20 nautical miles from where the boat sank in the search for the missing, Djunaidi said. Marine accidents are common in the Southeast Asian archipelago of around 17,000 islands, where safety standards are often lax. In 2018 more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in one of the world’s deepest lakes on Sumatra island.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 30, 2022 06:50 UTC