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Lake Toba ferry: Search goes on with 180 reported missing
Source: BBC
More than 180 passengers are now believed to be missing after Monday's ferry disaster on Lake Toba, Indonesia.
The number, revised up from 130, is three times the number of passengers the ferry was licensed to carry.
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The area in Sumatra had been hit by bad weather - many victims are thought to have been trapped inside the vessel.
Indonesia's national search and rescue agency said only 18 survivors had been found, all within hours of the tragedy.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44543872
