Korean gym is a hothouse of grief for relatives of ferry missing


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  • Sunday, 20 Apr 2014

A family member of a missing passenger onboard the Sewol ferry which capsized on Wednesday, cries as she checks the newly announced list of the dead, at a gym in Jindo April 20, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) - Kim Ha-na no longer sleeps or eats and is haunted by the voice of her 17-year-old brother, calling frantically to tell her the ferry he was aboard with more than 300 classmates and staff from his high school on the outskirts of Seoul was sinking.

More than 50 people are now known to have died and 252, mostly children, presumed dead in the upturned hull of the stricken vessel that capsized off the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday.

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