(16 Nov 2022)
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Bali - 16 November 2022
1. Fishing boat proceeding to ship that is on fire
2. People on ship with ropes lowered in water
3. Passenger jumping into water while others use ropes to reach water
4. Passenger helped out of the water by fisherman and onto boat
5. Ship's crew
6. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Yosa Patringola, member of the ship's crew:
"I don’t know what happened, but what I saw was the cargo - which are carbon dioxide tubes - were burning."
7. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Dewa Krisnawa, fisherman:
"When we got here, some people were already in the water. So all the fishermen proceeded to the location to help."
8. Rescued people on boat, sailing to port
STORYLINE:
A passenger ferry carrying 271 people caught fire Wednesday off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
The Mutiara Timur I was carrying 236 passengers and 35 crew members when it caught fire in the Bali Strait, about 1.5 kilometers (a mile) from Karangasem beach.
Dozens of rescuers, navy sailors and local fishermen were trying to evacuate people to two navy ships and and there were no immediate reports of injuries, said Bali’s search and rescue agency head Gede Darmada.
"I don’t know what happened, but what I saw was the cargo - which are carbon dioxide tubes - were burning" said Yosa Patringola, a member of the crew of the ship.
Dozens of rescuers, navy sailors and local fishermen were trying to evacuate people to two navy ships said Darmada.
Darmada added that the cause of the fire was being investigated.
Photos and video released by the National Search and Rescue Agency showed rescuers in inflatable boats evacuating the passengers to a navy ship while black smoke billowed from the burning ferry.
The ferry was heading from Lembar port in West Nusa Tenggara province from East Java’s Ketapang town, according to Darmada.
Sea accidents caused by overcrowding and poor safety standards are common in the archipelago nation of more than 17-thousand islands, where ferries are often used for transport.
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