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4 dead, almost 300 missing after South Korean
ship sinks
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Rescue boats and helicopters scrambled to pluck
passengers, most of them high school students,
from a ferry after it sank off the southwest
coast of South Korea early Wednesday. Of the 459
people on board, 164 have been rescued. Many
jumped from the listing ship to the freezing
waters of the Yellow Sea. The bodies of at least
four people were confirmed dead. About 292 remain
unaccounted for. The rescue operation was still
underway Wednesday evening, hours after the ferry
first sent out a distress signal. Authorities
could not immediately say what caused the ship to
sink. The weather at the time of the incident was
clear. Dive teams have been going in and out of
the submerged ship looking for bodies. But poor
visibility has made their task difficult.
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