Sinking of a ferry in Indonesia: at least 34 dead – 04/07/2018

At least 34 people, including children, have died in the sinking of a ferry off the coast of Indonesia, local authorities said on Wednesday after the latest boat accident. [19659004] KM Lestari apparently carried around 190 people – far more than the list of 134 pbadengers – at the time of the tragedy.

In addition to the 34 dead, 155 people were rescued, the National Management Agency said Disasters, not mentioning any missing in its 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 sinking 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.

This accident occurred is produced 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 water body and one from 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 bad weather prevented larger vessels from approaching, said the Ministry of Transport.

"The last pbadengers on board were evacuated around 00H05" on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, said a senior official, Agus H. Purnomo, in a statement.

" The captain and owner of the boat were the last to leave the ferry, "he said.

Shipping by boat is very common to connect the 17,000 islands and islets of Indonesia, the Asian country. Southeast where fatal accidents are frequent because of weak security measures and boats often overloaded.

In 2009, more than 300 people would have died when a ferry connecting the island of Famèbres to that of the part indon his poured Borneo.