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January 15, 2009, Thursday
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INDONESIA is examining whether a ferry that sank at the weekend may have had up to 103 more people on board than at first thought after many names did not appear on the manifest, an official said.
Desperate relatives chartered boats yesterday to join the search as bad weather continued to hamper rescue efforts after the 10-year-old Teratai Prima keeled over and sank off Sulawesi island in heavy seas.
The ferry had 250 passengers and 17 crew according to the manifest, but Bambang Ervan, a transport ministry spokesman, said at least 103 more could have been on board.
The official said it was too early to conclude that they were all additional passengers and some may have traveled under different names after somebody else bought their tickets.
"So, we are still verifying these matters," he said.
Only 36 survivors and two corpses have been found since the ship went down in the early hours on Sunday.
Some survivors were found after spending hours clinging to flotsam including, in at least one case, clusters of bananas.
Indonesian disaster investigators are focusing on the weather as the cause of a weekend ferry sinking, an official said.
Transport Minister Jusman Syafi'i Djamal said on Monday that a preliminary investigation showed the ferry capsized after it was hit by waves, but there would be an investigation into why the captain set sail despite warnings about bad weather.
Members of the National Transport Safety Committee had questioned the ferry's captain, who was one of the survivors, as well as crew on other ships in the same area.
Desperate relatives chartered boats yesterday to join the search as bad weather continued to hamper rescue efforts after the 10-year-old Teratai Prima keeled over and sank off Sulawesi island in heavy seas.
The ferry had 250 passengers and 17 crew according to the manifest, but Bambang Ervan, a transport ministry spokesman, said at least 103 more could have been on board.
The official said it was too early to conclude that they were all additional passengers and some may have traveled under different names after somebody else bought their tickets.
"So, we are still verifying these matters," he said.
Only 36 survivors and two corpses have been found since the ship went down in the early hours on Sunday.
Some survivors were found after spending hours clinging to flotsam including, in at least one case, clusters of bananas.
Indonesian disaster investigators are focusing on the weather as the cause of a weekend ferry sinking, an official said.
Transport Minister Jusman Syafi'i Djamal said on Monday that a preliminary investigation showed the ferry capsized after it was hit by waves, but there would be an investigation into why the captain set sail despite warnings about bad weather.
Members of the National Transport Safety Committee had questioned the ferry's captain, who was one of the survivors, as well as crew on other ships in the same area.
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