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...
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...
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...
