Four people died and 30 are missing in the wreck in Indonesia

At least four people died and 30 are missing after the wreck of a ferry that brought 65 people to the Indonesian island of Bali on Wednesday (2) at night.

At least four people died and 30 are missing after the wreck of a ferry that brought 65 people to the Indonesian island of Bali on Wednesday (2) at night.

The rescue teams, who have already saved 31 people from the sea, are trying to find more survivors for the wreck who have occurred just before midnight in a local time. The ferry had come from Banyuwangi on the eastern coast of Java, tied north of Bali, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency.

“Four people died, so 30 are still looking for,” said the head of the Mohamada Syaffi agency in a press conference, adding that a helicopter is participating in the research.

The authorities did not specify if there were foreigners on board.

“The ferry designed and sank immediately,” the survivor Eka Tonsyah in a hospital in Bali told journalists. “Most of the passengers were from Indonesia. I was with my father. He died.”

In order to 2.5 meters, accompanied by “winds and a strong current”, they interrupted the rescue operations, said Nanang Sigit, director of the local rescue agency based in Surabaya.

“Kmp Tunu Pratama Jaya sank about 25 minutes after raising the anchor,” said the agency, adding that the ferry “also transported 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.”

The Indonesian President Pabowo, in a visit to Saudi Arabia, ordered the immediate shipment of emergency rescue services, said the secretary of the cabinet Teddy Indra Wijaya in a note.

The ferry sank because of the “bad weather”, said Wijaya. The crossing of the port of Katapang, in East Java, up to the port of Gilimanuk, in the north of Bali, about 5 km away, uses about an hour and is commonly done by the locals.

According to the list of people on board, “53 passengers and 12 crew members” were on board, said the research and rescue agency, adding that the ship sank around 23:20 local time.

The rescue teams are trying to verify that the number of people on board corresponds to the declared list.

Rescue operations

About 50 police and police officers aboard life boats were sent to the area and a ship was subsequently sent by Surabaya. “We are still focusing on the search for the surface of the water in which the first victims were found,” said Nanang, adding that the teams expand the search for maritime currents.

Maritime accidents regularly occur in Indonesia, a vast archipelago with about 17,000 islands, in part due to limited safety standards.

In March, a boat with 16 people on board lit a sea traffic on the same tourist island as Bali. An Australian woman died and at least someone else was injured.

In 2018, over 150 people died when a ferry sank in Lake Toba, one of the deepest in the world, on the island of Sumatra. In 2022, a ferry that transported more than 800 people ran on shallow waters on the coast of the province of Tenggara of East Nusa, in the Eastern Archipelago, and was stuck for two days before being released. There were no reports of injuries.

(With AFP)

Source: Terra

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