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CAIRO, Feb. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Rescuers have found 388
survivors since an Egyptian ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sank last
Friday in the Red Sea, the official MENA news agency quoted Governor of the Red
Sea province Bakr el-Rashidi as saying on Monday.
Over 200 bodies had reportedly been recovered with nearly
800 still missing as search and rescue operation entered the fourth day with
hopes of finding more survivors fading.
Hundreds of relatives of the victims on Monday waited
nervously outside the Safaga port, where the ferry would have arrived, for the
whereabout of their kin, a Xinhua correspondent reported.
Some angry relatives stormed the office of the ship's
owner company, throwing furniture and computers out into the streets and tearing
down the sign boards of the company.
Police fired canisters of tear gas to restore order in
Safaga, 600 km southeast of Cairo.
Preliminary investigation on Saturday blamed a fire which
erupted shortly after the ship left the western Saudi Arabian port of Dubah on
Thursday evening for the sinking. Enditem |