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Nationwide Search and Rescue Company says rescuers looking for 43 folks after vessel sank off resort island.
Rescuers are looking for 43 folks lacking in tough seas in a single day after a ferry carrying 65 folks sank close to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank virtually half an hour after leaving East Java’s Ketapang port late Wednesday, the Nationwide Search and Rescue Company stated in an announcement.
It was certain for Bali’s Gilimanuk port, a 50-kilometre (30-mile) journey.
The ferry carried 53 passengers, 12 crew members and 22 autos, together with 14 vans, it stated.
Two our bodies have been recovered and 20 have been rescued, a lot of them unconscious after drifting in uneven waters for hours, stated Banyuwangi police chief, Rama Samtama Putra.
9 boats, together with two tug boats and two inflatable boats, have been looking for the lacking folks since Wednesday night time, battling waves as much as two metres (6.5ft) excessive within the in a single day darkness.
Ferry tragedies are widespread in Indonesia, an archipelago of greater than 17,000 islands, the place ferries are sometimes used as transport and security rules can lapse.
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