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South Korean Coast Guards searching for passengers near a ferry that capsized on its way to Jeju island from Incheon, in April 2014. (AFP PHOTO / FILES / South Korea Coast Guard)

Teens helped each other escape sinking Korean ship

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 28, 2014 | World

Ansan, AP—Students who survived a South Korean ferry disaster earlier this year testified on Monday that they were repeatedly ordered by loudspeaker to stay in the sinking ship, but eventually helped each other flee after their cabins flooded. The six girls spoke at a...

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his photo taken at sea some 20 kilometres off the island of Byungpoong in Jindo on April 16, 2014 shows coast guard members searching for passengers near a South Korean ferry that capsized on its way to Jeju island from Incheon. (AFP Photo / Dong-A Ilbo)

283 missing, 4 dead in South Korea ferry disaster

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 16, 2014 | World

Mokpo, AP—A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea’s southern coast on Wednesday, leaving more than 280 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by dozens of ships and...

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A ferry sinks in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/South Korea Coast Guard via Yonhap)

More than 300 people missing after South Korean ferry sinks—coastguard

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 16, 2014 | World

Jindo, South Korea, Reuters—Almost 300 people were missing after a ferry sank off South Korea on Wednesday, the coastguard said, in what could be the country’s biggest peacetime disaster in nearly 20 years. The ferry was carrying 459 people, of whom 164 were...