South Korea has indicted for homicide the captain and three crew members of a ferry that killed more than 280 passengers when it capsized.
The death toll from last month’s capsized ferry off South Korea’s coast has now climbed to 275- at least 29 still unaccounted for.
Bad weather has forced authorities to temporarily call off the search for more than 100 bodies from a capsized South Korean ferry.
The arrested captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago with 476 people on board has defended his decision to delay its evacuation.
The vice-principal of a high school whose pupils were on a capsized South Korean ferry has committed suicide as hopes fade of finding survivors.
At least 200 South Sudanese civilians have died when a boat, packed with people escaping fighting between government forces and rebels, capsized.
Tanzania’s government has halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people.
An overcrowded river ferry has split in two and sunk during a severe storm in northeast India, leaving at least 40 people dead and 160 missing.
Authorities say the death toll in this week’s ferry disaster rose to 116 when villagers found four more bodies floating in the water.
Recovery workers are trying to raise the wreckage of a ferry that capsized on a river in Bangladesh while carrying about 200 people.
At least seven people are dead and another 150 are missing after a ferry sank in Bangladesh. So far, 35 survivors have been found.
Zanzibar has vowed stern punishment for those responsible for overloading a ferry that capsized off the coast of east Africa.
At least 190 people died on Saturday when a ferry capsized off the popular tourist archipelago of Zanzibar, a minister said.
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/ 10 September 2011
The international relations department says South African companies in Tanzania are helping with rescue procedures after a ferry capsized in Zanzibar.
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/ 10 September 2011
At least 43 people died when a ferry capsized off the coast of Zanzibar, but around 300 people are feared still missing, a Zanzibar minister says.
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/ 23 November 2009
The captain of an Indonesian ferry which sank, killing 29 people, rejected claims of overcrowding on Monday.
At least 14 people were confirmed dead and a search was underway for dozens others after a ferry capsized near the coastal Somali town of Kismayo.
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/ 14 January 2009
Indonesia is examining whether a ferry that sank at the weekend may have had up to 103 more people on board than at first.
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/ 13 January 2009
Driving rain on Tuesday hit the hunt for more survivors from an Indonesian ferry that sank off Sulawesi Island on the weekend.
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/ 12 January 2009
Indonesian rescue teams were searching on Monday for scores of people missing after a ferry carrying 267 passengers and crew sank in stormy seas.
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/ 15 December 2008
At least 22 people were killed and 34 others were reported missing after a ferry capsized in the northern Philippines, the coast guard said on Monday.
Philippine investigators opened an inquiry on Wednesday into a ferry disaster believed to have killed 800.
Rescuers scoured the rough seas around a capsized ferry in the central Philippines on Monday in a desperate search for more than 800 people.