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View all search resultsOne person was reported missing when a boat capsized in Lake Toba, Simalungun regency, North Sumatra, on Friday evening. The accident occurred after the engine of passenger boat KM Ramos Risma Marisi broke down while sailing to Nainggolan Port in Samosir regency.
The National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) began operating the Indonesian Navy's scan sonar and multibeam scan sonar equipment on Friday to detect the exact location of the capsized KM Sinar Bangun on Lake Toba, North Sumatra.
Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has connected the sinking of ferry KM Sinar Bangun to inadequate infrastructure facilities and a lack of discipline from both ferry service providers and sea transportation authorities.
Indonesia's search and rescue agency has revised up the number of passengers missing after a ferry sank in Lake Toba on Sumatra island this week to 180 from around 130 estimated earlier, an official from the agency told Reuters on Wednesday.
The last volcanic "super-eruption" big enough to erase civilisation as we know it happened 25,000 years ago -- but these types of blasts occur every 17,000 years on average, according to a revised calculation out on Wednesday.
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