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A South Korean relative waits for news at a gymnasium used as a gathering point for family members of missing passengers aboard the sunken South Korean ferry, Sewol, in Jindo on April 22, 2014. (AFP Photo/Nicolas Asfouri)


Death count in ferry sinking tops 100

Death count in ferry sinking tops 100

Jindo, AP—One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from a South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week...
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Family members of missing passengers onboard the South Korean ferry Sewol which capsized on Wednesday, look at messages describing the look and dressing of a newly found body by rescue teams, at a makeshift accommodation hall at a gymnasium in the South Korean port city of Jindo, on April 21, 2014. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)