The ongoing rescue voltage after the 18 -people boat carries a bad weather off the Mentawai Islands.
Indonesia rescuers are searching for 11 people who disappeared after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra, according to a local search and rescue agency.
The agency said in a statement that dozens of rescuers and two boats were at the catastrophe on Tuesday, and seven out of 18 people were rescued on the boat.
The ship turned around 11 am on Monday (04:00 GMT) while sailing around the Mentawai Islands.
She had left Seikakab, a small town in the Mindway Islands, and was heading to another small town, Tuapejat. Of the 18 people on board, 10 local government officials were.
“Our focus is on combing the area surrounding the estimated accident site to find all the victims,” said Rudi, head of the Mentawai Rescue Agency from Mentawai.
It did not give a reason to the boat’s coup, but marine accidents are a regular event in the archipelago of Southeast Asia by about 17,000 islands, in part due to relaxation or bad weather standards.
On July 3, a The phrase carrying 65 people drowned Following the popular island of Bali, killing at least 18 people.
In March, a boat carrying 16 people turned in rough water off Bali, killing an Australian woman and wounding at least another person.
In 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a Sink In one of the deepest volcanic lakes in the world on Sumatra Island.
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