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More than 100 still missing from ferry

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  February 04, 2012

Hampered by poor weather, rescue workers pressed their search yesterday for the more than 100 people still missing after a ferry sank Thursday off the cost of Papua New Guinea, officials said. A second full day of searching for survivors from the ferry, the MV Rabaul Queen, was drawing to a close with no signs of passengers, said Capt. Nurur Rahman, rescue coordinator for Papua New Guinea’s National Maritime Safety Authority. Rahman said no bodies had been found, and the official number of survivors remained at 238, unchanged since late Thursday night.

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