Three people died and over 500 were saved after a ferry caught fire off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Emergency services officials report it. According to the Indonesian coast guard, the passengers threw themselves into the sea with the rescue jackets after yesterday a fire to the stern of the Km Barcelona 5 broke out, while it was in navigation towards Manado. A video released by the Manado rescue agency showed a coast guard ship that sprayed water on the ferry, from which black smoke came out. The Indonesian authorities had initially reported that five people had died in the accident, but later they revised the budget of the victims to three. “Until now, the joint rescue team is still conducting the research and rescue operations because the data are still in the processing phase – said the head of the Manado rescue agency, George Leo Mercy Randang – Our rescue place is still open 24 hours a day, in the event that families want to report the disappearance of their relative ». At least 568 people were saved from the ferry and water, while three others were found dead, announced the national research and rescue agency in a press release. The ferry register reported only 280 passengers and 15 crew members on board. Local media reported that the ship had a capacity of 600 people. Maritime accidents are on the agenda in the Southeast Asian archipelago, made up of about 17,000 islands, in part due to the unbalanced safety standards or bad weather conditions. Sunday’s fire took place a few weeks after another ferry sank out of the famous tourist island of Bali due to bad weather, causing the death of at least 19 people. In March, a boat with 16 people on board turned upside down in agitated waters off the coast of Bali, causing the death of an Australian woman and the injury of at least another person. And in 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank in one of the deepest lakes in the world on the island of Sumatra.
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