Five Survivors Found Adrift Three Days After Indonesia Ferry Sinks

Rescuers pulled five people including a child from a fish trap near Matallang Island as 20 passengers remain unaccounted for in the KM Nurul Salsa disaster.

Five survivors clinging to a floating fish trap were pulled from the waters south of Sulawesi on Saturday evening, ending a three-day ordeal that began when their passenger vessel lost power and sank. The group, which includes a seven-year-old girl, was spotted by a passing fishing boat near Matallang Island before nightfall and transferred to a search-and-rescue vessel, according to Muhammad Arif Anwar, head of the Makassar Search and Rescue Office. Their recovery brings the total number of confirmed survivors to 52 but leaves 20 people missing and one confirmed dead following the Wednesday sinking of the KM Nurul Salsa. [1][5]

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