At least four people have died and 23 have been rescued after a ferry carrying 65 people sank on its way to Indonesia’s Bali Island, a local police chief said Thursday.
“Twenty-three rescued, four dead,” Rama Samtama Putra, police chief of the East Javan town of Banyuwangi, told AFP, saying that was the latest update as of 7:50 a.m. (0050 GMT). A local rescue agency earlier said 61 were missing.
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Rescuers are searching for 43 people missing in rough seas overnight after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
ReplyDeleteThe KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving East Java’s Ketapang port late Wednesday, the National Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement.
It said the ferry was also transporting 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.
ReplyDeleteIt is common in Indonesia for the actual number of passengers on a boat to differ from the manifest.
In March, a boat carrying 16 people capsized in rough waters off Bali, killing an Australian woman and injuring at least one other person.
ReplyDeleteA ferry carrying more than 800 people ran aground in shallow waters off East Nusa Tenggara province in 2022 and remained stuck for two days before being dislodged with no one hurt.
And in 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in one of the world’s deepest lakes on Sumatra island.