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388 survivors found in Egyptian ferry disaster
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-07 02:05:48

    CAIRO, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- 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

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