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Indonesia continues search for hundreds missing in capsized ship

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Indonesia continues search for hundreds missing in capsized ship
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JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities will continue searching on Monday for more than a hundred people still missing after a passenger ship sank in the Java Sea last week, with the confirmed ‌death toll now ‌at 10, its ​rescue ‌agency said ⁠on Sunday. The ​passenger ⁠ship, Virgo Transport 8, was carrying 243 people, including 30 crew members, when it capsized in bad weather early on September 13 during a 20-hour voyage from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan. “Hopefully ⁠the weat

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