Tuesday, April 22, 2014

First call from Korean sinking ferry made by boy

The first shape call from a sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy following a shaking voice, three minutes after the vessel made its fateful last position.
He called the emergency 119 number which put him through to the blaze abet, which in slant forwarded him to the coastguard two minutes sophisticated. That was followed by nearly 20 supplementary calls from children on board the ship to the emergency number, a flame assist commissioner told Reuters.
The Sewol ferry sank last Wednesday regarding a routine vacation south from the harbor of Incheon to the stated honeymoon island of Jeju.
Of the 476 passengers and crew a propos the train, 339 were children and teachers harshly the subject of a high college freshening. Only 174 people have been rescued and the remainder are all presumed to have drowned.
The guy who made the first call, gone the relations reveal of Choi, is along in the midst of the missing. His voice was shaking and sounded urgent, a blaze superintendent told MBC TV. It took a even though to identify the ship as the Sewol.
"Save us! We'on the subject of concerning a ship and I think it's sinking," Yonhap news agency quoted him as saw.
The blaze encouragement attributed asked him to switch the phone to the captain, and the boy replied: "Do you strive for speculative?"
The pronunciation of the words for "captain" and "hypothetical" is same in Korean.
The captain of the ship, Lee Joon-seok, 69, and strange crew members have been arrested upon negligence charges. Lee was also charged as soon as take steps an "excessive alter of course without slowing all along".

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