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/ 1 January 2007

Teams spot survivors from Indonesian ferry disaster

Rescue ships collected scores of bloated corpses on Monday from seas close to where an Indonesian ferry sank in the Java Sea, but search teams also spotted survivors on life rafts and dropped food and water to them, officials said. Weeping relatives camped out at ports and a local hospital, desperate for news of the roughly 400 people still missing from the ferry.

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/ 31 December 2006

More Indonesian ferry survivors found

Indonesian fishermen on Sunday found 18 more survivors as navy ships continued the search for over 500 people missing after a ferry sank in a storm off the coast of Java, police said. The 17 men and one woman were picked up by fishing boats and taken to Rembang hospital, where most of the survivors of the ferry disaster have been taken for medical check-ups.

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