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Indonesia rescuers searching for 129 people still missing after passenger ship capsizes
JAKARTA: More than 600 Indonesian rescuers were searching for 129 people still missing after a passenger ship capsized in the Java Sea on the weekend, an official said on Monday, with the death toll steady at six. The Virgo Transport 8 ship carrying 243 people went missing in bad weather early on Sunday, the rescue agency said. Authorities have rescued 108 people from the ship, which was travelling from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan. “We have continued the search for the missing since early in the morning. We are deploying 622 personnel and around 12 ships,” I ...
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