Rescuers in Papua New Guinea are searching for more than 100 people still missing after a ferry sank off the coast of Papua New Guinea Thursday morning. Officials say 238 survivors have been saved so far in a joint Australian-Papua rescue operation after the ferry Rabaul Queen sank. News reports from the region say about […]
Rescuers Search for 100 Missing After Papua New Guinea Ferry Disaster
Posted February 2nd, 2012 at 7:35 pm (UTC-5)
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Hundreds Rescued from Papua New Guinea Ferry Disaster
Posted February 2nd, 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC-5)
Scores of passengers are still missing after a ferry sank early Thursday off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. Nerae Marimahu, a spokeswoman with the Pacific nation’s National Maritime Safety Authority in Port Moresby, told VOA the MV Rabaul Queen sank about 16 kilometers off Cape Fortification. She said it was not immediately clear […]
Hundreds Rescued from Papua New Guinea Ferry Disaster
Posted February 2nd, 2012 at 4:05 am (UTC-5)
More than 200 passengers have been rescued from a ferry that sank early Thursday off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. Nerae Marimahu, a spokeswoman with the Pacific nation’s National Maritime Safety Authority in Port Moresby, told VOA the MV Rabaul Queen sank about 16 kilometers off Cape Fortification. She said it was not […]
Ferry Carrying Over 300 People Sinks Off Papua New Guinea
Posted February 2nd, 2012 at 12:05 am (UTC-5)
Search and rescue crews have been deployed off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, where a ferry carrying around 350 people sank early Thursday morning. Officials with the Pacific nation’s maritime safety agency say 28 people have been rescued from the site of the disaster. The ferry’s operator says it lost contact with the […]
Indonesia Ferry Fire Sparks Deadly Stampede
Posted September 28th, 2011 at 1:43 am (UTC-5)
Eight people are dead after a stampede on a docked ferry boat in Indonesia. The tragedy happened Wednesday when a truck caught fire on the ferry and panicked passengers tried to escape. Officials said eight people were fatally trampled in the stampede and dozens of others were injured. The ferry was docked at the Tanjung […]
Four Charged In Deadly Tanzania Ferry Accident
Posted September 17th, 2011 at 6:33 am (UTC-5)
Zanzibar prosecutors have charged four people with negligence in connection with last Saturday’s ferry accident in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 200 people. The ferry, the MV Spice Islander, capsized during a trip around the three islands that make up Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago. Prosecutors charged the boat’s captain, Abdallah Kinyanyite, in absentia because […]
Search Continues After Tanzania Ferry Sinks
Posted September 11th, 2011 at 8:30 am (UTC-5)
Search-and-rescue efforts continued Sunday off the coast of Tanzania where an overcrowded ferry capsized, killing at least 192 people. More than 600 survivors were plucked from the water after the boat sank Saturday. Searchers said it is unlikely they will find more survivors at this point but expect to recover more bodies from the underwater […]
Nearly 200 Killed Killed in Tanzania Ferry Sinking
Posted September 10th, 2011 at 10:55 pm (UTC-5)
Officials in Tanzania say at least 192 passengers drowned when an overcrowded ferry sank Saturday near Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. Reports from Zanzibar suggest the ferry, the MV Spice Islander, was even more overloaded than previously thought, with roughly 800 people on board. Some survivors say the ferry began to list as soon […]
More Than 150 Killed in Tanzania Ferry Sinking
Posted September 10th, 2011 at 1:51 pm (UTC-5)
Officials say at least 163 people were drowned when an overcrowded ferry sank Saturday near Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. Reports from Zanzibar suggest the ferry, the MV Spice Islander, was even more overloaded than previously thought, with roughly 750 people on board. The latest casualty report from authorities in Stone Town, Zanzibar’s capital […]
More than 100 Killed in Tanzania Ferry Accident
Posted September 10th, 2011 at 8:06 am (UTC-5)
Officials say at least 107 people were killed when an overloaded ferry sank near Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania. State minister Mohammed Aboud says the ferry was carrying 600 people Saturday when it capsized and sank between Zanzibar and Pemba Island. At least 250 people have been rescued, but hundreds of people are still […]
