The Italian Navy evacuated all passengers from the burning ferry.
On December 29, the Italian Navy confirmed that it had evacuated all passengers and most of the crew from the ferry that caught fire off the Adriatic coast of Italy the previous day.
The navy said only nine crew members remained on board the ferry and it would be towed back to port.
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| The Norman Atlantic ferry caught fire. (Source: nationalpost.com) |
The Norman Atlantic ferry met with disaster at approximately 6:00 AM local time on December 28th (11:00 AM Vietnam time) while en route from the port of Patras in Greece to the port of Ancona in Italy.
The ferry was carrying a total of 478 people, including 268 Greeks (including 34 crew members), 44 Italians (including 22 crew members), 54 Turks, 22 Albanian passengers, 18 German passengers, as well as citizens of France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, and Russia.
At least five people were killed in the accident. Rescue workers recovered four bodies from the water on December 29, a day after pulling the body of a 62-year-old Greek man from the sea during rough seas.
According to VNA
