Boy and girl on Korean ferry drowned with life jackets tied together


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Apr 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - A boy and girl trapped in a sinking South Korean ferry with hundreds of other high school students tied their life jacket cords together, a diver who recovered their bodies said, presumably so they wouldn't float apart.

The diver had to separate the two because he could not carry two corpses up to the surface at the same time.

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