More arrest in S Korea Ferry disaster

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BBC Online :The South Korean authorities have arrested four more crew members from the ferry that sank last week, bringing the total number detained to 11.Police have also raided offices of companies linked to the ferry’s owners.Search teams are continuing to recover bodies from the submerged hull of the passenger ferry.One survivor has described taking the agonising decision to save himself as the ship capsized and water washed away students he was trying to rescue. The number of people known to have died in the accident has reached 150, with another 152 still missing, most of them teenage children from a single school in Ansan, outside the capital Seoul.

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