Indonesia Ship Sinks

Rescuers have found 24 bodies and kept searching for 31 other missing persons after 18 ships were hit by a storm in waters off West Kalimantan province in central Indonesia days ago, the top rescuer of the province said on Wednesday.

A ship carrying more than 100 passengers was adrift in rough seas off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi today, officials said, contradicting earlier media reports that the vessel had sunk.

Bad weather was hampering a desperate search on Monday for two foreign tourists still missing after a boat travelling between two Indonesian islands sank at the weekend, although 13 more people had been plucked from the water alive, officials said.

A passenger ferry collided with a cargo ship and sank west of Indonesia's main island on Wednesday morning, and at least eight people were killed, officials said.

Rescuers searched for survivors on Sunday after a wooden ship carrying about 250 asylum seekers, many of them from the Middle East, sank off Indonesia's main island of Java. Only 33 people have been rescued so far, an official said.

Rescuers have found 24 bodies and kept searching for 31 other missing persons after 18 ships were hit by a storm in waters off West Kalimantan province in central Indonesia days ago, the top rescuer of the province said on Wednesday.

A ship carrying more than 100 passengers was adrift in rough seas off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi today, officials said, contradicting earlier media reports that the vessel had sunk.

Bad weather was hampering a desperate search on Monday for two foreign tourists still missing after a boat travelling between two Indonesian islands sank at the weekend, although 13 more people had been plucked from the water alive, officials said.

A passenger ferry collided with a cargo ship and sank west of Indonesia's main island on Wednesday morning, and at least eight people were killed, officials said.

Rescuers searched for survivors on Sunday after a wooden ship carrying about 250 asylum seekers, many of them from the Middle East, sank off Indonesia's main island of Java. Only 33 people have been rescued so far, an official said.