The phrase carrying 65 people drowned off the Indonesian island of Bali news

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Two people were killed and at least 43 other people were missing after the sinking of a ferry that was carrying 65 people in a raging sea off the Indonesian island of Bali last night, according to what the Indonesian authorities announced on Thursday.

In a statement, the search agency in Surabaya, the second largest city in the country, said in a statement that the phrase was sank about half an hour after its departure from the port of Kitabang in Eastern Java on Wednesday evening, and she was heading to the port of Gilmanoc in Bali, on a 50 -km trip, noting that it was carrying, according to the list of those on board, “53 passengers and two parties of 12 individuals.”

According to the statement, the phrase “was also carrying 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.”

The Baniwii police chief, Rama Sammta Putra, said that the rescue teams found two bodies and 20 people were rescued, many of whom were unconscious after the current washed away for hours in the collapsing waves.

And 9 boats, including a diameter boat and two rubber boats, are participating in the searches since Wednesday evening, despite the confrontation of waves with a height of two meters and the circumstances of complete darkness.

The incidents of sinking of ferries are common in Indonesia, the vast archipelago consisting of about 17,000 islands, where phrases are widely used as a means of transportation, and safety regulations are often strictly applied.

Last March, a boat of 16 people in a raging sea overturned the same tourist island of Bali, which resulted in the sinking of an Australian woman and the injury of another person, at least.

In 2018, more than 150 people were killed when a ferry sank on Sumatra Island in Lake Tuba, one of the deepest lakes in the world.

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