Jakarta - One body and a total of 33 survivors were rescued two days after a passenger ferry capsized off the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi, leaving an estimated 230 others missing and feared dead, officials said Tuesday.
The body of one of the boat passengers meanwhile had been found in the Majene waters and was taken ashore by a navy warship to Majene port, while eight more survivors were picked up from the rough seas, said Junaidi, an official in the West Sulawesi port town of Majene.
He said seven of the survivors were picked up by a cargo vessel that passed around the sunken ferry and they were taken to the Makassar port in south Sulawesi capital.