Vanuatu ends search for 37 people missing in ferry sinking

WELLINGTON: A search has ended for those missing after a passenger ferry sank in rough seas off the coast of Vanuatu, with 39 people believed dead, an official told The Associated Press on Friday. No more people have been pulled from the water since last weekend, when 14 survivors and two bodies were found. The ferry MV Matui was traveling between the islands of Santo and Ambae with 53 people on board when it sank Sept. 11, a deputy commissioner of Vanuatu’s Maritime Safety Authority Lloyd M. Fi

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