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500 missing after Indonesian ferry sinks
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SEMARANG, Indonesia -- Navy ships scoured the rough Java Sea
today in search of survivors from a ferry that sank in a storm off
central Indonesia, leaving more than 500 people missing, officials
said.
More than a day after the accident, 109 survivors had been
rescued, Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa told reporters in Semarang
late Saturday. The ferry is thought to have had 638 passengers,
Radjasa said. No bodies have been recovered, but some survivors
reported seeing fellow passengers...
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