TWO passengers, a man and a child, were still missing a day after a Navy craft carrying out engine trials rammed into their ferry off Mumbai coast, police said on Thursday. Of the 113 people on board ...

JAKARTA, Sept 27 (Bernama) — Indonesia has extended the search and rescue (SAR) operation for victims of the ill-fated Virgo Transport 8 passenger ferry by another seven days, with 71 people still missing about two weeks after the vessel went down in the Java Sea. Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Operations Director Rear Admiral Yudhi Bramantyo Nur Sasongko said the latest seven-day extension, the second since the vessel went down on Sept 13, came as another 11 bodies were recovered on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 64. “We have decided that we may extend it for another […]

JAKARTA, Sept 23 (Bernama) — The death toll from Indonesia’s Virgo Transport 8 ferry disaster rose to 27 on Wednesday after nine more bodies were recovered from inside the sunken vessel, while 108 victims remain missing. National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) chief Mohammad Syafii said the bodies were recovered by divers from the Basarnas Special Group (BSG) and Indonesian Navy divers, bringing the number of people accounted for to 135 out of 243 on the vessel’s manifest, comprising 108 survivors and 27 fatalities. “We will continue our efforts to provide certainty to the families who are still waiting,” he […]

Survivors of a ferry disaster off Cyprus recount scenes of terror and panic as the vessel sank, leav...

A FERRY packed with 270 people has capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus. Around 100 of those on board have not yet been reached, Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul said. A massive search and rescue op…