USA Today reports that more than two hundred high school students remain missing and are feared dead after a South Korean ferry sank in the seas of the country’s southwest coast:
Rescue teams, fighting strong currents, have finally gotten into the upturned vessel and managed to pump air inside in hopes of reaching possible survivors.
Meanwhile, the vice principal of the school that arranged the overnight trip was found hanging from a tree, police said, in an apparent suicide. The school official, identified only by his surname, Kang, was on the island of Jindo, where rescued passengers have taken shelter.
Some 268 people, mostly high-school students, are still missing, as rescue teams report finding more bodies floating in waters off South Korea’s southwest coast, pushing the death toll to 28, the Yonyhap news agency reports.
Of the 475 original passengers, 179 have been rescued, but 268 others, mostly high-school students on a school trip, remain missing…
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