January 07, 2025 09:43 pm (IST)

Make this your homepage

Foreign

Centre announces memorial for Pranab Mukherjee, his daughter thanks PM Modi for 'gracious gesture' | Delhi assembly elections on Feb 5, results on Feb 8 | Allu Arjun visits boy injured during Pushpa 2 stampede in Hyderabad | Donald Trump repeats his US-Canada merger offer after Justin Trudeau's resignation | India's HMPV cases surge to 7 after two cases reported from Nagpur | H-1B visa renewal will get simpler in 2025, Indians to benefit most as home country travel won't be required | As India detects 3 HMPV cases, #lockdown trends; Centre says no need to panic | Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canada's PM amid rising pressure by partymates | 8 jawans, driver killed as Maoists blow up security vehicle in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur | Atul Subhash suicide: Karnataka High Court refuses to quash FIR against wife Nikita Singhania

Indonesia: Ferry catches fire, 23 killed

India Blooms News Service | | Jan 01, 2017, at 11:05 pm

#Indonesia #IndonesiaFerryFire #FerryFire

Jakarta, Jan 1 (IBNS): A ferry caught fire off the Indonesian coast which killed at least 23 people, media reports said on Sunday.

The Zahro Express ferry was carrying more than 230 people to Tidung island, a resort some 50km (30 miles) from the capital, Jakarta, BBC reported.

An official told BBC Indonesia that 194 people were rescued.

More than 10 people are still missing, reports said.

Image: Representational Image

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.