Dozens missing after ferry carrying 65 people sinks off Indonesia’s Bali
At least four people are dead and dozens of others are missing after a ferry carrying 65 people sank off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, authorities have said, Al Jazeera reports.
Rescuers are searching for 38 people after the KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank shortly after leaving East Java’s Banyuwangi port, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency, Badan Nasional Pencarian dan Pertolongan, said on Thursday.
Twenty-three survivors have been rescued as part of the rescue operations, which include nine vessels, according to officials.
💔Horrible tragedy off the coast of Bali — a passenger ferry has sunk
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There were 65 people on board. 23 were rescued, 4 died, and dozens are still missing.
The ferry's route is commonly used by locals traveling between the islands of Java and Bali. pic.twitter.com/A9wSb1ZtlB
Banyuwangi police chief, Rama Samtama Putra, said many of the survivors were initially unconscious after spending hours drifting in the ocean.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who is visiting Saudi Arabia, ordered an immediate emergency response, Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya said in a statement, adding that the cause of the accident was “bad weather”.
Maritime disasters are a common occurrence in Indonesia, an archipelago of about 17,000 islands, where lax safety standards often allow vessels to be overloaded without adequate life-saving equipment.
In March, a boat carrying 16 people capsized in rough waters off Bali, killing an Australian woman and injuring at least one other person.
In 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in one of the world’s deepest lakes on Sumatra island.
As written before, 148 dead after boat accident on DR Congo river in April.
