Indonesia identifies suspected location of sunken ferry


  • World
  • Sunday, 24 Jun 2018

Rescue team members use boats during a search operation for the missing passengers after a ferry sank earlier this week in Lake Toba in Simalungun, North Sumatra, Indonesia, June 23, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's search and rescue team has located the sunken ferry in Sumatra's Lake Toba, an official said on Sunday, after the vessel sank in a bad weather nearly a week ago with almost 200 people onboard.

The hydrographic survey "identified" the ferry 450 metres (1,476 feet) deep in the water, not far from where it sank on Monday, said Nanang Henky Suharto, an executive director at PT Mahakarya Geo Survey, a firm involved in the search.

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