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S. Korea ferry disaster death toll crosses 100
     2014-April-23  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    THE confirmed death toll from South Korea’s ferry disaster crossed 100 yesterday, as dive teams, under growing pressure from bereaved relatives, accelerated the grim task of recovering hundreds more bodies from the submerged vessel.

    Improved weather conditions and calm seas spurred their efforts, but underwater visibility was still very poor, requiring divers to grope their way blindly though the corridors and cabins of the ferry that capsized and sank last Wednesday.

    Nearly one week into the rescue and recovery effort of one of South Korea’s worst peacetime disasters, close to 200 of the 476 people who were aboard the 6,825-ton Sewol — most of them schoolchildren — are still unaccounted for.

    The official toll stood at 113, with 189 still missing.

    The first distress call from the sinking ferry was made by a boy with a shaking voice, three minutes after the vessel made its fateful last turn.

    He called the emergency 119 number, which put him through to the fire service, which in turn forwarded him to the coastguard two minutes later. That was followed by about 20 other calls from children on board the ship to the emergency number, a fire service officer told reporters.

    South Korean authorities said among the bodies retrieved Monday night, two were Chinese men.

    The distraught victims’ families gathered in the morning at the harbor of Jindo island awaiting the increasingly frequent arrival of boats with the most recently recovered bodies.

    The disaster has profoundly shocked South Korea, a proudly modernized nation that thought it had left behind large-scale accidents of this type. If there is a chief hate figure, it is the ferry’s captain, Lee Joon-seok, who was arrested at the weekend and charged with criminal negligence and abandoning his passengers.(SD-Agencies)

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