A giant crane that will lift up the sunken South Korean Sewol ferry is seen ahead of the salvage project off Jindo, on June 12, 2016.
Seoul (AFP) - Strong waves forced the suspension of an operation to lift a South Korean ferry that sank in 2014 in a disaster that shocked and enraged the country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Sewol was carrying 476 people when it sank off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014, with the loss of 304 lives -- most of them schoolchildren.
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