Italian Navy evacuates all passengers from burning ferry
The Italian Navy confirmed on December 29 that it had evacuated all passengers and most of the crew from a ferry that caught fire off the country's Adriatic coast the day before.
The navy said only nine crew members remain on the ferry and it will be towed back to port.
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| Norman Atlantic ferry on fire. (Source: nationalpost.com) |
The Norman Atlantic ferry crashed at around 6am on December 28 local time (11am Vietnam time) while on its way from the Greek port of Patras to the Italian port of Ancona.
There were 478 people on board the ferry, including 268 Greeks (including 34 crew members), 44 Italians (including 22 crew members), 54 Turks, 22 Albanian passengers, 18 German passengers, and citizens of France, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Russia.
At least five people died in the accident. Rescuers recovered four bodies from the water on December 29, a day after pulling the body of a 62-year-old Greek man from the rough seas./.
According to VNA
