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Mon, 08/31/2009 - 16:06
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DEATH TOLL IN BOAT ACCIDENT RISES TO 21
Banjarmasin, Aug 31 (ANTARA) - The death toll in the sinking of Sari Mulia motorboat last Friday in in Negara Desa Batalas waters in Candi Laras Utara, Tapin district, South Kalimantan, rose to 21 on Monday.
Tapin police spokesman Brigadier Fery Aditya Sasmita said rescue team on Monday discovered two more bodies which brought the toll to 21 with 116 survivors.
Aditya said some more bodies were still trapped in the ill-fated boat.
Earlier on Saturday he said at least of 21 people who had been traveling on the Sari Mulia motor boat went missing after it sank at about 8 p.m. on Friday.
He said rescue teams sent from Tapin district at the time had limited diving equipment and thus were unable to save the missing passengers who were trapped inside the boat.
According to Aditya, the boat was designed to carry less than one hundred passengers but on Friday there were 132 people on board.
"The boat was overloaded and this might have contributed to the accident," Aditya said, adding that the boat capsized at 8 p.m. local time on Friday after the people on board had performed their evening prayers.
Dardy, a crew of the ill-fated boat who survived in the accident told the police that the overloaded boat was on its way from Daha in Hulu Sungai Selatan district to Banjarmasin with a stopover at Tapin district but it capsized before reaching South Kalimantan's provincial capital.
He said the boat overturned a few hours after leaving Batalas pier in Tapin, or about 100 kilometers from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.
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Tapin police spokesman Brigadier Fery Aditya Sasmita said rescue team on Monday discovered two more bodies which brought the toll to 21 with 116 survivors.
Aditya said some more bodies were still trapped in the ill-fated boat.
Earlier on Saturday he said at least of 21 people who had been traveling on the Sari Mulia motor boat went missing after it sank at about 8 p.m. on Friday.
He said rescue teams sent from Tapin district at the time had limited diving equipment and thus were unable to save the missing passengers who were trapped inside the boat.
According to Aditya, the boat was designed to carry less than one hundred passengers but on Friday there were 132 people on board.
"The boat was overloaded and this might have contributed to the accident," Aditya said, adding that the boat capsized at 8 p.m. local time on Friday after the people on board had performed their evening prayers.
Dardy, a crew of the ill-fated boat who survived in the accident told the police that the overloaded boat was on its way from Daha in Hulu Sungai Selatan district to Banjarmasin with a stopover at Tapin district but it capsized before reaching South Kalimantan's provincial capital.
He said the boat overturned a few hours after leaving Batalas pier in Tapin, or about 100 kilometers from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.
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