Indonesian rescuers have evacuated 233 of the 238 passengers and crew trapped on a ferry that caught fire off the country’s Madura island on Sunday, the search and rescue agency said on Tuesday, with the total death toll at five.
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The KM Mutiara Sentosa 2 was travelling from Indonesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya in East Java province to Makassar city in South Sulawesi before it caught fire on Sunday, authorities had said.
A total of five people died in the accident, according to Mohammad Syafii, chief of the country’s search and rescue agency. An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.
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