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Indonesia rescuers searching for 129 people still missing after passenger ship capsizes

Global Published 14 September 2026, 08:02 · archived 14 Sep 2026

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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