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47 feared dead as ferry sunk
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SOME 47 people are missing and feared dead after an inter-island ferry carrying 84 passengers sank in waters off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last week, a delayed report said on Saturday.
The Jakarta Post quoted a port administrator as saying the ferry, the four-tonne Restu Illahi, went down Sunday off the small port of Palipi, after ramming into a flotilla of floating logs.
No rescue efforts had been undertaken, the Post quoted Albar Yahya, the administrator of the nearby port of Majene, 300 kilometres south of the port city of Makassar, as saying.
Yahya said, "I reported the incident to the Makassar Search and Rescue Head office on May 30, but I have received no response so far," Yahya said.
Palipi Port task force chief, Muhammad Nasir, told the Post the passengers included seven children.
He said five of the survivors including the captain had been found by Palipi fishermen on Friday and that the other 32 survivors had been located on the coast of the nearby district of Polmas.
Loggers in many areas float their logs down rivers and in the sea to move them from one port to another.(SD-Agencies)
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