Seven rescued, 11 missing after boat capsizes off Indonesia’s Mentawai

Rescue effort nether mode aft vessel carrying 18 radical capsizes successful atrocious upwind disconnected the Mentawai Islands.

Rescuers successful Indonesia are searching for 11 radical who went missing aft a vessel capsized successful atrocious upwind disconnected the Mentawai Islands successful West Sumatra province, according to a section hunt and rescue agency.

Dozens of rescuers and 2 boats were astatine the tract of the catastrophe connected Tuesday, and 7 of the 18 radical connected committee the vessel person been rescued, the bureau said successful a statement.

The vas capsized astatine astir 11am connected Monday (04:00 GMT) arsenic it sailed astir the Mentawai Islands.

It had departed Sikakap, a tiny municipality successful the Mentawai Islands, and was heading to different tiny town, Tuapejat. Of 18 radical connected board, 10 were section authorities officials.

“Our absorption is connected combing the country astir the estimated mishap tract to find each victims,” said Rudi, the caput of the Mentawai hunt and rescue agency.

He did not springiness a origin for the vessel capsizing, but marine accidents are a regular occurrence successful the Southeast Asian archipelago of astir 17,000 islands, successful portion owed to lax information standards oregon atrocious weather.

On July 3, a ferry carrying 65 radical sank off the fashionable edifice land of Bali, sidesplitting astatine slightest 18 people.

In March, a vessel carrying 16 radical capsized successful unsmooth waters disconnected Bali, sidesplitting an Australian pistillate and injuring astatine slightest 1 different person.

In 2018, much than 150 radical drowned erstwhile a ferry sank successful 1 of the world’s deepest volcanic lakes connected Sumatra island.