Makassar (Indonesia): Rescue teams in Indonesia are searching for 25 people missing after a cargo boat sank. Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province, officials said on Sunday.
The boat, carrying 42 people in total, sank on Thursday morning while traveling from a port in Makassar in bad weather. kalmas island in Pangkep Regency, said Junaidi, head of the provincial search and rescue agency. Like many Indonesians, Junaidi is known by only one name.
Seventeen people were later rescued, some of whom were rescued by two tugboats that were at sea at the time of the incident.
Junaidi said the search and rescue agency received fresh information about the location of the sunken boat on Saturday and sent the crew to the area.
Two motor boats and a search and rescue boat, along with local fishing boats and helicopters from the Indonesian Air Force, are involved in the search for the missing passengers.
The sunken ship was initially said to be a passenger boat, but Junaidi later clarified that it was a cargo boat carrying construction materials.
Thirty-six passengers were asked to ride on the boat and there were six crew members.
ferry tragedy are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, where ferries are often used as a form of transport and safety regulations may be waived.
In 2018, an overcrowded boat carrying about 200 people sank in a deep volcanic crater lake in North Sumatra province, killing 167 people.
In one of the country’s worst recorded disasters, an overcrowded passenger ship sank in February 1999, carrying 332 people aboard. Only 20 survived.
The boat, carrying 42 people in total, sank on Thursday morning while traveling from a port in Makassar in bad weather. kalmas island in Pangkep Regency, said Junaidi, head of the provincial search and rescue agency. Like many Indonesians, Junaidi is known by only one name.
Seventeen people were later rescued, some of whom were rescued by two tugboats that were at sea at the time of the incident.
Junaidi said the search and rescue agency received fresh information about the location of the sunken boat on Saturday and sent the crew to the area.
Two motor boats and a search and rescue boat, along with local fishing boats and helicopters from the Indonesian Air Force, are involved in the search for the missing passengers.
The sunken ship was initially said to be a passenger boat, but Junaidi later clarified that it was a cargo boat carrying construction materials.
Thirty-six passengers were asked to ride on the boat and there were six crew members.
ferry tragedy are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, where ferries are often used as a form of transport and safety regulations may be waived.
In 2018, an overcrowded boat carrying about 200 people sank in a deep volcanic crater lake in North Sumatra province, killing 167 people.
In one of the country’s worst recorded disasters, an overcrowded passenger ship sank in February 1999, carrying 332 people aboard. Only 20 survived.