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Salvage operators were to begin a test lift of South Korea's Sewol ferry Wednesday, officials said
Hundreds of thousands of protestors returned to the streets of Seoul on Saturday, demanding impeached President Park Geun-hye’s immediate removal and the salvaging of a sunken ferry which left more than 300 dead.
An overcrowded ferry capsized and sank in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, leaving around 30 people missing after the latest in a long series of river accidents in the country.
A total of 157 people were evacuated from a ferry crossing between the Spanish island of Mallorca and the Spanish city of Valencia on Tuesday afternoon after the ferry caught fire 18 miles off the southwest coast of the island.
The father of a teacher kept apologizing, sobbingly saying his dead daughter should have saved more students. Another father of a student was desperately fighting back his tears, saying he still feels his daughter is alive. The father of a surviving student burst into tears when he said some attempted to commit suicide from a sense of guilt that they alone survived.
South Korean lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution that calls for the salvaging of the sunken Sewol ferry, which has been demanded by family members of the victims and survivors.
The death toll in Sunday's ferry disaster in Bangladesh's northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 76 with the recovery of seven more bodies, said a police official on Thursday.
The death toll in Sunday's ferry disaster in Bangladesh's northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 69 with the recovery of 28 more bodies on Monday.
Forty one persons, including nine children, drowned and several others were still missing in a ferry accident in the river Padma in western Manikganj on Sunday, officials confirmed.
The search for survivors of the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic ferry continued in the Adriatic on Tuesday, as confusion over the number of missing people prevailed.
The captain of the South Korean sunken ferry was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years in prison for leaving more than 300 people dead by dismissing his duty of saving passengers.
Bangladesh's anti-crime elite force RAB early Wednesday arrested the owner of a ferry that had capsized last week, leaving at least 46 people dead and 61 others still missing.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday reshuffled her cabinet to regain public confidence lost after the ferry sinking disaster.
A ferry collided with a boat on the sea area off Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Island on Wednesday night, injuring at least 38 people, local media reported.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye made an official apology once again for one of the country's deadliest maritime disaster on Monday, vowing a reform in officialdom and safety response system.
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