WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT At least 15 passengers were killed when a small ferry capsized during a short 20-minute journey near Indonesia's Sulawesi island, the national search and rescue agency said
The other 33 passengers on board were rescued after the accident on Sunday night, the agency said in a statement, adding two of the victims were in hospital.The cause of the sinking, which occurred at about midnight, was still unclear.Indonesian rescue team members carry out a search operation following a deadly ferry sinking off Indonesian island, Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia seen in this handout picture released July 24, 2023.
Teams searching for the missing were diving at the location where the vessel sank and patrolling nearby waters in rubber boats, the agency said. Ferries are a common mode of transport in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, and accidents are common as lax safety standards often allow vessels to be overloaded without adequate life-saving equipment.
Reporting by Ananda Teresia, Gayatri Suroyo, Stanley Widianto; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor, Raju Gopalakrishnan
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