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  2. Likoni Ferry - Wikipedia

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    Likoni. The Likoni Ferry is a ferry service across Kilindini Harbour, serving the Kenyan city of Mombasa between Mombasa Island and the mainland suburb of Likoni. Double-ended ferries alternate across the harbour, carrying both road and foot traffic. The ferries are operated by the Kenya Ferry Services (KFS), and is the only remaining ferry ...

  3. List of maritime disasters in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Üsküdar – A small passenger ferry sank due to heavy lodos weather in the Gulf of İzmit on 1 March. 272 passengers including seven crew died; 39 people survived. 272. 1994. Kenya. Likoni Ferry – On 29 April the overloaded passenger ferry Mtongwe One capsized and sank killing 272 people of the more than 300 aboard.

  4. South Koreans still seek answers 10 years after Sewol ferry ...

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    April 16, 2024 at 1:23 AM. By Sebin Choi and Dogyun Kim. ANSAN, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea remembered the 304 people, most of them school children, who died on the Sewol ferry on the 10th ...

  5. Sinking of MV Spice Islander I - Wikipedia

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    Outcome. between 200 and 1,500 deaths. On 10 September 2011, MV Spice Islander I, a passenger ferry carrying over 2,000 passengers, sank off the coast of Zanzibar. The ferry was travelling between Unguja and Pemba, two islands off the coast of mainland Tanzania, when it capsized. Early estimates put the death toll at around 200, but a report ...

  6. Divers, underwater drone join Indonesia's search for 192 ...

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    Divers and an underwater drone on Wednesday joined a fleet of rescue vessels in Indonesia's search for at least 192 passengers missing two days after an overcrowded wooden ferry sank in one of the ...

  7. Sinking of MV Sewol - Wikipedia

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    The ferry MV Sewol sank on the morning of April 16, 2014, en route from Incheon towards Jeju in South Korea. [16] The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi; 1.5 nmi) north of Byeongpungdo at 08:58 KST (23:58 UTC, April 15, 2014). [17] Out of 476 passengers and crew, 304 died in the disaster, including around ...

  8. Sinking of the ferry Neptune - Wikipedia

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    The sinking of the ferry Neptune, a Haitian commercial ship which regularly carried people and cargo from Jérémie to Port-au-Prince, occurred on the night of February 16, 1993. It capsized and sank off the coast of Miragoane, due to a mix of the passenger crowd's size and movement, and the conditions of the ship and weather.

  9. Vice principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster ...

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    (Reuters) - The vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of his pupils on what turned out to be a disastrous ferry trip has committed suicide, police said on Friday ...