Sunday, August 30, 2009
Boat sinks, 8 dead, 18 trapped
Eight people died and 18 are feared trapped inside a cargo vessel which sank on a river in Indonesia's Borneo island. Indonesia's 234 million people are spread across 17,000 islands and so are heavily dependent on a network of ships and boats, which have a poor safety record. Up to 335 people were killed when a ferry sank off Sulawesi island in January. In December 2006 a ferry went down in a storm off the coast of Java, killing more than 500 people.
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It is always happening in Indonesia, India or philiphine.
The authorities shall pursue and enforce strict compliance to the overloading of ferries.
Although the ferry operator can earn more money to squeeze as many passenger into trhe ferry, it result in overloading and sank the ferry mid way through the journey.
Sad case.
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