Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 01:00
Bad weather and high tides have again delayed the resumption of operations to raise South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry, the maritime ministry said Monday.
The vessel was carrying 476 people when it went down off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014, leaving 304 people dead -- mostly school children -- in one of the country’s worst maritime disasters.
After already being pushed back once due to bad weather, the salvage operation had been scheduled to resume Tuesday but has now been put off for another two weeks. “The operations for raising the bow and installing lifting beams have been inevitably delayed to July 11 due to bad weather, including high tide and winds,” the maritime ministry said in a statement. - AFP
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