JAKARTA: The official death toll from a passenger ship that capsized and sank in Indonesia’s Java Sea rose to 20 on Wednesday (Sep 23), up from the previous 10, with rescuers expecting to find more bodies as the ongoing underwater search widens, officials said.
The Virgo Transport 8 ferry was carrying 243 people, including 30 crew members, as well as an unknown number of vehicles, when it capsized in bad weather early on Sep 13 during a voyage from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan.
Coast guard and Navy personnel recovered eight bodies from inside the ship over the past three days, and also found two bodies that had been…
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