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First body of 17 missing after ferry fire found
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Search – Personnel of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) search for the Zahro Express victims who remain missing in an operation in Jakarta Bay waters on Monday. Basarnas deployed 15 divers and several vessels from a joint team in the search operation.
(Antara/Wahyu Putro A.)
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he body of a man suspected to be one of the 17 passengers missing after a fatal fire on board a Zahro Express ferry on Sunday has been found in the water not far from Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta.
The body was found by a fisherman on Wednesday morning after the fourth day of searching for the missing people, Jakarta Police water police director Sr. Comr. Hero Hendrianto Bachtiar said in a statement.
“It was found near the tanker Gurddini located to the east of Tanjung Priok Port,” Hero said.
(Read also: Zahro Express captain named suspect for fatal boat accident)
The body had been lifted from the water and taken to the National Police Hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, for further identification, he said.
Police identified the body as George Bernard Christopher, 26, a passenger from Bogor, West Java.
Along with the body, authorities found two cell phones and a pocket containing banknotes amounting to Rp 1.4 million (US$103), some dollar bills, an ID card, a driver’s license and an ATM card.
The Zahro Express boat caught fire while traveling from Muara Angke Port in North Jakarta to Tidung Island in Thousand Islands regency on Sunday morning. Twenty-three of the hundreds of people on board died, while 130 survived. Authorities previously announced that 17 people were missing. (dan)
