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1400-capacity Egyptian ferry sinks
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"A ferry carrying about 1,400 people, most of them Egyptians, has sunk in the Red Sea. Fourteen bodies and about 100 survivors have so far been pulled from the water, Egyptian officials said. The al-Salam Boccaccio'98 went down about 80km (50 miles) off the Egyptian coast during an overnight journey from Duba in Saudi Arabia to Safaga. Rescue boats and helicopters are searching the area, but are being hampered by poor weather. The cause of the sinking is not known, but there were high winds when it left Duba."
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Oh my god, this is awful. I can't begin to imagine what the families of the people on the ferry must be going through. My sympathies go out to them at this time.
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Oh my god, this is awful. I can't begin to imagine what the families of the people on the ferry must be going through. My sympathies go out to them at this time.
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R.I.P
A mystery.
If they maintained the ferries better... but i suppose we can't hope for Miracles.
while our thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their lives, the families of those who perished, and friends and associates involved, or linked in any way to those who died.
you have to imagine and then take into consideration the compassion felt for people elsewhere in the world, the thousands who die everyday due to starvation didnt chose to have that happen to them, it sounds harsh, but the people who got on the ferry were unlucky to have done something such as get on a doomed ferry, 1,400 lives is a lot of people, but still nothing in comparison to the more than 1,400 who lose their lives everyday, and dont often even have anyone to think of them who they are related to, never mind millions of tv viewers accross the world who have compassion for people they might never have met, and saw on the news
sorry if i was too harsh there
Yeah, all old shitty ferries get sold to poorer countries, so their people can die on them. Great.
Some campanies over here still use Ro-ro's... se em going up and down to past Felixstowe... there is a reason they became knows as roll over roll over.