Search underway off Indonesia for 24 people missing after boat sinks, at least 1 dead
Rescuers found 49 survivors and one dead, while the Indonesian Navy joined a search for 24 people still missing.
- On Thursday, July 16, 2026, a passenger boat sank near Selayar, Indonesia, killing one person and leaving 24 missing after engine failure struck the vessel south of Sulawesi.
- KM Nurul Salsa departed Jampea Island on Wednesday morning carrying 74 people, though the vessel's manifest listed only 50; overcrowding with cargo including copra, cattle, and motorcycles contributed to the voyage.
- Rescuers located 46 survivors, but poor weather with waves reaching 2.5 meters hampered the ongoing search, while the Indonesian Navy deployed to assist local agencies in locating the missing.
- Muhammad Arif Anwar, head of the Makassar Search and Rescue Office, confirmed the fatality and stated that "24 people are still being searched for," with authorities having received engine-failure reports Wednesday afternoon.
- Marine accidents occur regularly in the Southeast Asian archipelago due to lax safety standards and inclement weather, as the nation relies on passenger boats to connect its more than 17,000 islands.
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Indonesian authorities are continuing their search operation for 24 missing people after a passenger boat capsized off the coast of South Sulawesi province. At least one death has been confirmed, while 49 survivors have been rescued.
(Jakarta=Yonhap News) Correspondent Son Hyun-kyu = A passenger ship carrying about 70 people sank off the coast of Central Sulawesi Island in Indonesia, killing one person and leaving 24 missing.
A passenger boat sank in Indonesia, killing one person and leaving 23 passengers missing.
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1 person dead and 23 missing after passenger boat sinks in Indonesia, authorities say
Authorities in Indonesia say one person is dead and 23 are missing after a passenger boat sank on the way to an island in the archipelago.
At least one person has died and 24 are missing in the wreckage of a passenger ship in front of Selayar Island (Indonesia), as reported by the local search and rescue agency Basarnas this Thursday. A failure in the engine would have caused the sinking of the ship while sailing near Selayar, a small island south of the largest island of Sulawesi and close to Bali, as explained by the director of Basarnas, Muhammad Arif Anwar. The crew could not r…
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