Wednesday 16 April 2014
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Rescue boats and helicopters scrambled to pluck passengers, most of them high school students, from a ferry as it slowly sank off the southwest coast of South Korea early Wednesday.
Out of the 459
people on board, 164 have been rescued, the security ministry said. Many jumped
from the listing ship to the freezing waters below.
At least two
people — a woman and a student — were confirmed dead. Another 293 remain
unaccounted for, the ministry said.
A South Korean
ship with over 400 people on board sank off the country's southwestern coast
Wednesday.
A South Korean
ship with over 400 people on board sank off the country’s southwestern coast
Wednesday.
By afternoon,
the ship was virtually submerged. At least two people are dead, with hundreds
rescued and many unaccounted for.
The rescue
operation was still underway Wednesday evening, hours after the ferry first
sent out distress signal.
Authorities
could not immediately say what caused the ship to sink. The weather at the time
of the incident in the area was clear.
The ferry,
Sewol, was carrying 325 students; 15 teachers; 30 crew members; and 89 other
passengers.
The school
group left from the port city of Incheon, just west of Seoul, for a four-day
trip to the resort island of Jeju.
Around 9 a.m.
local time, the ferry sent out its first distress call. It had begun to list.
As the ship listed badly, authorities ordered many passengers to jump into the water. (Photo: CNN |
South Korea’s president ordered all available vessels, along with special operations divers, to contribute to the rescue effort. (Photo: CNN) |
A rescued
student, Lim Hyung Min, told CNN affiliate YTN that he heard a loud bump. The
ferry began to sink after that. Everyone was ordered to don life jackets and
jump, he said. Lim said he jumped into the sea before swimming to a rescue
vessel.
“I had to swim
a bit to get to the boat to be rescued,” he said. “The water was so cold and I
wanted to live.”
Rescue boats scrambled to pluck passengers from the ferry as it sank into freezing water.(Photo: CNN) |
The rescue
operation includes the U.S. Navy ship USS Bonhomme Richard, which was
responding to the scene. It dispatched helicopters to the area, the Navy said.
Dive teams
have been going in and out of the submerged ship looking for bodies. But low
visibility has made their task difficult.
Passenger Kim
Seung Mok said that, despite his efforts and those of others, he couldn’t get
to several passengers on one of the decks.
“I
stayed till the last to rescue people at the hall,” Kim told YTN. “But the
water was coming in so fast (that) some didn’t make it out.”
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