Basarnas ends monitoring of KMP Mutiara Sentosa II fire
Active search was halted on day seven after 238 people were accounted for, including 233 survivors and 5 fatalities.
Active search was halted on day seven after 238 people were accounted for, including 233 survivors and 5 fatalities.
What's new: Rescuers pulled 227 people from the ship after flames spread rapidly on a route from Surabaya to Makassar.
Authorities were still accounting for passengers and victims Sunday night as search operations continued by sea and air.
On day two of the search, a Luwuk team joined the operation as 11 foreign passengers and two crew remain unaccounted for.
In Badiri, traffic was briefly cut off, while a breached levee in Bonalumban left waist-deep water in neighborhoods.
Seventy homes in two jorong were inundated by about 70 centimeters after the Batang Tumayo River overflowed following heavy rain.
Investigators suspect the victim had been dead for several days; the car is said to be a Bangkalan regency government vehicle.