Rescuers searching for 140 people from Indonesia passenger ship, official says
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters — Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 140 people from a passenger ship that was earlier reported missing in the Java Sea after 103 others were evacuated, one of whom died, a search and rescue agency official said. The Virgo Transport 8 ship set sail on Saturday from the East Java city … The post Rescuers searching for 140 people from Indonesia passenger…
Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesian rescuers are currently searching for 140 individuals aboard a passenger ship that went missing in the Java Sea, according to a search and rescue agency official. The Virgo Transport 8 ship departed from Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday headed to Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, before losing contact.
I Putu Sudayana, head of the Banjarmasin office of the agency, announced via a video statement that 103 passengers had been successfully evacuated using multiple ships, with some of them being relocated to an East Java port. Search operations are ongoing, with rescuers deploying a team, vessels, and a helicopter towards the ship's last known location, though the fate of the vessel remains unknown.
As an archipelago nation of 17,000 islands, Indonesia heavily relies on ferries for transportation due to their affordability and accessibility, despite safety standards not always being strictly upheld, which leads to a relatively high accident rate.
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