At Least 2 Dead, 43 Missing After Ferry Sinks Near Bali

Rescuers were searching Thursday for 43 group missing successful unsmooth seas overnight aft a ferry carrying 65 group sank adjacent Indonesia’s edifice land of Bali.

The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hr aft leaving East Java’s Ketapang larboard precocious Wednesday, nan National Search and Rescue Agency said successful a statement. It was bound for Bali’s Gilimanuk port, a 30-mile trip.

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In this photograph released by nan Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers hunt for victims aft a ferry enroute for nan edifice land of Bali sank disconnected Ketapang, East Java, Indonesia, early Thursday, July 3, 2025. (BASARNAS via AP)

The ferry carried 53 passengers, 12 unit members and 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks, it said.

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Two bodies person been recovered and 20 were rescued, galore of them unconscious aft drifting successful choppy waters for hours, said Banyuwangi police chief Rama Samtama Putra.

Ferry disasters are communal successful Indonesia, whose emblem is pictured here. (Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Nine boats, including 2 tug boats and 2 inflatable boats person been searching for nan missing group since Wednesday night, battling waves up to 6.5 feet precocious successful nan overnight darkness.

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Ferry tragedies are communal in Indonesia, an archipelago of much than 17,000 islands, wherever ferries are often utilized arsenic carrier and information regulations tin lapse.