The body that was found inside the sunken Sewol-ho ferry yesterday... has finally been retrieved this evening, after poor conditions hampered recovery efforts all day.
Kwon Soa has the details.
Nearly 24-hours after it was located inside the wreckage of the ill-fated Sewol-ho ferry, divers were able to retrieve the body this Wednesday evening.
It marks the first discovery in 1-hundred and two days... and comes more than six months after the ferry capsized and sank off Korea′s southwestern coast.
Due to decomposition, officials could not identify the body but said DNA tests would be performed soon.
The body is presumed to be that of a female victim, as it was wearing stockings and found near a women′s restroom on the fourth deck of the vessel.
Currently there are four female victims missing, three of whom are high school students.
Earlier in the day divers failed in reaching the body due to poor underwater visibility and fast currents... delaying the recovery operations.
Victims′ families raised doubts about the efficiency of ongoing search efforts as the latest discovery was made in the exact location they had specifically asked divers to search.
Divers said they had previsouly swept the area more than a dozen times, but believe currents may have recently carried the body to where it was found.
The discovery pushes the death toll in the tragedy to 295, with nine still missing.
This past weekend,... victims′ families voted to continue the underwater search operation... inside the ferry,... and to hold off... on raising the 68-hundred ton vessel.
The families of the missing held a press briefing Wednesday afternoon, calling on the government for more thorough search efforts as they believe the body found on Tuesday raises the chance that the rest of the missing have not been carried away.
Kwon Soa, Arirang News.
