Ship with 1400 sinks in Red Sea
Sunday, February 5th, 2006 | 8:24 pm @ SK
[UPDATED VERSION] A ferry carrrying about 1400 people people, most of them Egyptians, has sunk in the Red Sea.
The al-Salam Boccaccio ‘98 went down about 80km (50 miles) off the Egyptian coast during an overnight journey from Duba in Saudi Arabia to Safaga in Egypt.
At least 100 bodies had been recovered, 100 survivors rescued, in which the passengers included at least 115 foreigners.
BBC investigates the areas which investigators are likely to consider as possible causes of the disaster, in which among them are design flaws and human error.
The latest allegation, according to a testimony from a crew member, he alleged the captain chose to press on with the overnight voyage towards Egypt, even with an earlier fire alarm sounded aboard the vessel, shortly after the boat had left the Saudi port.