Families wait for news after Indonesia ferry disaster


epa05077530 An Indonesian woman cries as she checks the passengers list of a capsized ferry at a crisis center in Siwa, Wajo, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, 21 December 2015. The search restarted 21 December for at least 74 people still missing after a boat sank off Indonesia's Sulawesi island at the weekend. At least 41 people have been found alive and three others died after the accident in Bone Bay on 19 December, a police spokesman in South Sulawesi province said. The fibreglass ship was carrying 118 people, including 10 crew members. It departed Saturday morning from Kolaka in North Sulawesi for Siwa, on what should have been a six-hour journey. EPA/STR

SIWA, Indonesia: Rescuers scoured a remote gulf Monday for survivors of a weekend ferry disaster in central Indonesia, as anguished relatives gathered desperate for news from a boat that has still not been found.

Nearly 80 people remain missing after a vessel carrying 118 passengers ran into trouble in rough seas Saturday as it crossed the southern gulf of Sulawesi island.

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