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At least 34 people, including children, died in the sinking of a ferry off the coast of Indonesia, local authorities said Wednesday, following this new boat accident. The KM Lestari apparently carried nearly 190 people – well over the list of 134 pbadengers – at the time of the tragedy.
In addition to the 34 dead, 155 people were rescued, said the national agency of disaster management, not mentioning any missing person in his last balance sheet. The 48-meter boat connected Sulawesi's Sulawesi Island to the nearby island of Selayar when it was surprised by high winds and high waves. Images of the wreckage showed pbadengers clinging to one side of the sinking ferry while waves crashed on trucks and other vehicles on the boat about 300 meters off the coast of Celebes. [19659003] The second accident in one week
This accident happened the same day as the announcement of the end of searches of 164 people missing after another ferry sank last week on the island of Sumatra, in Lake Toba, tourist lake and one of the deepest in the world. Only the death of three pbadengers was confirmed, while 21 survived . Regarding the sinking on Tuesday, a fleet of small boats tried to save the pbadengers because the weather prevented larger buildings from approaching, said the Department of Transport.
"The last Pbadengers on board were evacuated around 00:05 "on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, said a ministry official, Agus H. Purnomo, in a statement. "The captain and owner of the boat were the last to leave the ferry ", he said.
Transportation by boat is very common to connect the 17,000 islands and islets of the island. Indonesia, a country in South-East Asia where fatal accidents are frequent due to weak security measures and often overloaded craft. In 2009, more than 300 people were killed when a ferry from Famous Island to the Indonesian part of Borneo sank.
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