JAKARTA: Eleven Indonesian fishermen survived three days at sea clinging to their upturned boat, rescuers said on Wednesday (March 13), as they looked for at least 22 crew members who remained missing following the weekend disaster that killed two.
The boat, carrying at least 35 people, wrecked on Saturday in waters off the isolated Selayar Islands in South Sulawesi Province, before the 11 survivors were discovered stranded on two distinct atolls after days at sea.
Their boat capsized amid heavy weather during Indonesia’s rainy season, according to the local search and rescue organization.
“They had been floating in the sea for three days, and the current carried them to Selayar waters,” local government official Andi Caco Amras told AFP on Wednesday. The two victims were discovered on separate islands.
On March 3, the fishing boat departed from a port in North Jakarta for Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara Province.
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