'When we got into the boats, I said 'I escaped hell,'' truck driver Dimitris Karaolanidis told The Associated Press.
Rescue teams in Greece searched a burning ferry Saturday for 12 people believed to be missing after it caught fire in the Ionian Sea while en route to Italy, while passengers described a frightening evacuation from the ship., firefighting vessels surrounded the Euroferry Olympia, which was carrying more than 290 passengers and crew. The Greek coast guard and other boats evacuated about 280 of them to Corfu.
Photos taken Saturday morning showed thick smoke hanging over the ship, which was transporting 153 trucks and 32 cars. A Greek prosecutor on the island of Corfu has ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire, which broke out three hours after the ferry left the port of Igoumenitsa, on the mainland in northwest Greece across from Corfu, for the Italian port of Brindisi. The Italy-based company that operated the ferry said the fire started in a hold where vehicles were parked.
Smoke rises from the Italian-flagged Grimaldi Euroferry Olympia that caught fire off the coast of Corfu island, Greece, February 18, 2022, in this still image obtained from a social media video."We heard the alarm, we thought it was some kind of drill. But we saw through the portholes that people were running," Karaolanidis told The AP."You can't think something at the time your family ... When I hit the deck, I saw smoke and children. Fortunately, they acted quickly.
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