Authorities claim that a ferry carrying 65 people sank off Bali, Indonesia’s resort island, killing at least four people and leaving dozens more without.
According to Indonesia’s search and rescue organization, Badan Nasional Pencarian dan Pertolongan,  , on Thursday, the KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank shortly after leaving East Java’s Banyuwangi port.
According to officials, the rescue operations, which include nine vessels, have resulted in the rescue of 23 survivors.
Many of the survivors, according to Rama Samtama Putra, the police chief in Banyuwangi, were initially unconscious after hours of drifting in the ocean.
According to Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who is currently in Saudi Arabia, ordered an immediate immediate emergency response, adding that the accident was caused by “bad weather.”
In Indonesia, an archipel of about 17, 000 islands, where lax safety standards frequently cause vessels to be overloaded without adequate life-saving equipment, maritime disasters are a common occurrence.
An Australian woman was killed and at least one other person was hurt when a boat carrying 16 people sank in rough waters off Bali in March.
Source: Aljazeera
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