Divers Continue Search as Ferry Probe Turns to Cargo
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Divers retrieved more bodies from a South Korean ferry that sank last week, as investigators focused on whether the vessel was carrying more cargo than it was designed to hold.
The official death toll reached 171 today. It’s likely to reach 302, with no survivors found since 174 of the 476 passengers and crew were rescued on April 16, the day the ‘Sewol’ sank off the Korean peninsula’s southwest coast. South Korea’s Unification Ministry said North Korea expressed its “deepest condolences” over the incident, which may be the South’s worst maritime disaster since 1970.