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Sat, 01/17/2009 - 23:38
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SEARCH FOR TERATAI PRIMA SHIPWRECK VICTIMS PROLONGED
Parepare, Indonesia, Jan 17 (ANTARA) - Efforts to locate still missing victims of the KM Teratai Prima shipwreck will be continued for three more days to meet the request of most of the victims' families.
"After coordination with the National Search and Rescue Agency it was decided the search will not end on Saturday," coordinator of the navy's search operations, Col Jaka Santosa, said after a meeting between joint search and rescue teams and victims' families here on Saturday.
According to standard operating procedures for naval operations search efforts would be carried out for seven days since the day of the incident last Sunday.
However, it was decided the time for it would be increased to meet the request of the victims' families, he said.
Moreover, he said, during the past seven days of search operations only 42 of the boat passengers were found including eight of them who had died.
According to the manifest the boat that capsized off Sulawesi waters last Sunday carried 250 passengers but it was believed it had also hundred other unregistered passengers on board.
He said search teams discovered no single dead body of the boat passengers on Saturday but they found six buoys floating in the waters in Barru, South Sulawesi, as well as some plastic cooking utensils.
"One of the buoys is still intact while five others seemed to have been used," he said. The teams only collected the buoys, he added.
"After coordination with the National Search and Rescue Agency it was decided the search will not end on Saturday," coordinator of the navy's search operations, Col Jaka Santosa, said after a meeting between joint search and rescue teams and victims' families here on Saturday.
According to standard operating procedures for naval operations search efforts would be carried out for seven days since the day of the incident last Sunday.
However, it was decided the time for it would be increased to meet the request of the victims' families, he said.
Moreover, he said, during the past seven days of search operations only 42 of the boat passengers were found including eight of them who had died.
According to the manifest the boat that capsized off Sulawesi waters last Sunday carried 250 passengers but it was believed it had also hundred other unregistered passengers on board.
He said search teams discovered no single dead body of the boat passengers on Saturday but they found six buoys floating in the waters in Barru, South Sulawesi, as well as some plastic cooking utensils.
"One of the buoys is still intact while five others seemed to have been used," he said. The teams only collected the buoys, he added.
