{"id":51125,"date":"2023-07-24T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/?p=51125"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:09:45","slug":"at-least-15-confirmed-dead-after-ferry-mishap-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/2023\/07\/24\/at-least-15-confirmed-dead-after-ferry-mishap-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 15 Confirmed Dead After Ferry Mishap In Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A ferry that sank off Indonesia\u2019s Sulawesi island, has reportedly killed a minimum of 15 people according to local authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ferry had 40 passengers on board when it sank at approximately midnight (16:00 GMT) and authorities are searching for 19 people who remain missing, Indonesia\u2019s national search and rescue agency said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six passengers were rescued and are being treated in hospital, the agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not clear how many people were on board as it is not uncommon in Indonesia for the actual number of passengers on a boat to differ from the manifest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe search will be conducted by dividing into two teams. The first team will dive around the accident site,\u201d<\/em> Muhamad Arafah, head of the local search and rescue agency in Kendari city in Southeast Sulawesi, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ ALSO:<\/strong> 18 Dead, Dozens Injured In Indonesia\u2019s Storage Depot Fire Outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe second team will conduct a sweep above the water surface around the accident site using a rubberboat and longboat.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Al Jazeera, ferry accidents are not uncommon in Indonesia, which is the world\u2019s largest archipelago country with more than 17,000 islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, as many as 192 people drowned when an overloaded ferry overturned and sank on Lake Toba on Sumatra island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May last year, a ferry with more than 800 people on board ran aground in waters off East Nusa Tenggara province. No one was hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ferry that sank off Indonesia\u2019s Sulawesi island, has reportedly killed a minimum of 15 people according to local authorities. The ferry had 40 passengers on board when it sank at approximately midnight (16:00 GMT) and authorities are searching for 19 people who remain missing, Indonesia\u2019s national search and rescue agency said on Monday. Six<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":51148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[15220,15222,15221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51149,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51125\/revisions\/51149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}