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22490
Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:21
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SURVIVORS OF BOAT ACCIDENT IN M'SIA ARRIVE IN TANJUNG BALAI
Medan, North Sumatra, Oct. 3 (ANTARA) - Some 103 survivors and 12 dead bodies of victims of a boat accident which happened in Malaysian waters last Tuesday (Sept. 30) arrived at Teluk Nibung seaport, Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, on Friday.
The victims, mostly Indonesian migrant workers, were greeted by Tanjung Balai Mayor Sutrisno Hadi at the seaport on their arrival at around 2 am local time.
The survivors consisted of 80 males, 22 females and a 14-month-old baby boy.
Most of the migrant workers were residents of North Sumatra, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Riau, Java and Kalimantan.
Meanwhile, the 12 dead victims, all of them female, included four inhabitants of Sampit (West Kalimantan), one from Java , and another from Sumatra. However, six of them had yet to be identified.
The survivors and dead bodies were picked up at the Malaysian port city of Port Klang on Thursday by an Indonesian ship , the Sarotama, on instructions from the Indonesian Transportation Ministry.
They were part of a group of around 150 Indonesians who had boarded a barge that was to take them to Tanjung Balai in Sumatra for the Idul Fitri holidays. The barge set off from a spot in a mangrove swamp near Pulau Che Mat Zin near West Port in Malaysia but it sank 10 minutes later at 7.30 am in waters near Pintu Gedong or about 15 km from West Port.
Twelve of them drowned, 125 others survived and three went missing.
Isa Munir, a maritime police chief, said earlier an oil tanker and a tugboat which happened to pass the scene of the accident rescued a number of the people who had been on the boat.
The rescued victims were taken to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah hospital for immediate medical treatment.
The accident happened most likely because the barge was overloaded.
The victims, mostly Indonesian migrant workers, were greeted by Tanjung Balai Mayor Sutrisno Hadi at the seaport on their arrival at around 2 am local time.
The survivors consisted of 80 males, 22 females and a 14-month-old baby boy.
Most of the migrant workers were residents of North Sumatra, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Riau, Java and Kalimantan.
Meanwhile, the 12 dead victims, all of them female, included four inhabitants of Sampit (West Kalimantan), one from Java , and another from Sumatra. However, six of them had yet to be identified.
The survivors and dead bodies were picked up at the Malaysian port city of Port Klang on Thursday by an Indonesian ship , the Sarotama, on instructions from the Indonesian Transportation Ministry.
They were part of a group of around 150 Indonesians who had boarded a barge that was to take them to Tanjung Balai in Sumatra for the Idul Fitri holidays. The barge set off from a spot in a mangrove swamp near Pulau Che Mat Zin near West Port in Malaysia but it sank 10 minutes later at 7.30 am in waters near Pintu Gedong or about 15 km from West Port.
Twelve of them drowned, 125 others survived and three went missing.
Isa Munir, a maritime police chief, said earlier an oil tanker and a tugboat which happened to pass the scene of the accident rescued a number of the people who had been on the boat.
The rescued victims were taken to Tengku Ampuan Rahimah hospital for immediate medical treatment.
The accident happened most likely because the barge was overloaded.
