'Mothers sat staring out to sea sobbing' [Edition 3]
"There was no rescue operation going on," he said on his return to Jindo. Survivor Koo Bonhee described how he could see the exit. For half an hour, as the doomed ferry filled with water and listed severely on its side, the crew told passengers to wait for rescuers. With their breathing...
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| Published in | Irish independent |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Dublin
Independent News & Media
17.04.2014
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| Summary: | "There was no rescue operation going on," he said on his return to Jindo. Survivor Koo Bonhee described how he could see the exit. For half an hour, as the doomed ferry filled with water and listed severely on its side, the crew told passengers to wait for rescuers. With their breathing room disappearing, the 36-year-old businessman and some of the other passengers floated to an exit and swam to a nearby fishing boat. But 290 of the 475 people aboard - many of them high school students on a class trip - were still missing after the ferry sank yesterday off the southern coast of South Korea. Six were confirmed dead and 55 were injured. |
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