Rescuers are continuing their search for 18 passengers of a ferry which capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday. The vessel, which was carrying 259 passengers and eight crew members, began taking on water soon after departing the coastal town of Kyrenia in the self-proclaimed Turkish republic on Cyprus. Eight people have been
Helicopters and coastguard boats have been dispatched to the scene, while ambulances have been stationed on the beach ready to receive rescued passengers. Üstel wrote on social media that the “priority right now is human life”, adding that security forces, rescue teams and health officials were all on the scene. He added the disaster will
The death toll from a ferry disaster on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has risen to 93, which makes it the country’s deadliest transport disaster, according to the state-run Herald newspaper. The ferry had a capacity to carry 90 passengers, but the paper estimates at least 168 people were actually on board when it was hit by
Five people have been found dead and 41 are missing after an Indonesian ferry carrying at least 250 people caught fire while at sea, officials say. The captain of the ship reported the fire – off Madura island – as the vessel sailed from the country’s second-largest city, Surabaya in East Java, to Makassar in
A ferry carrying 116 passengers sank off the coast of Guyana and eight people have been rescued so far, local authorities said. The MV Barima capsized near Iron Punt, en route from Georgetown to Port Kaituma. A distress call was received at 23:01 local time (03:01 +1 BST), triggering an urgent search operation involving state