Tourist boat sinks
August 17, 2014Advertisement
The boat was sailing from the Indonesian island of Lombok to Komodo Island (pictured) when it ran into difficulty on Saturday, a search official said. It's not yet clear what caused the vessel to capsize.
Ten people were rescued from the water, but 15 others - including 10 foreign tourists and five Indonesians - are still believed to be missing.
"We launched a search operation as soon as we received the report this morning," a search official told AFP on Sunday, adding that at the time of the accident, the boat was carrying tourists from Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, New Zealand, Germany and France.
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