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Agence France-Presse

At least four people died and nearly three dozen were missing after a passenger ferry went up in flames off Indonesia’s Java island, authorities said Friday.
The boat was travelling from Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya to Balikpapan on Borneo island with about 280 people aboard when it caught fire Thursday evening, according to police.
Television images on Friday showed plumes of black smoke pouring out of the boat, as search teams hunted for the missing passengers after scores were rescued.
East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera confirmed on Friday that at least four people died in the accident and dozens were unaccounted for.

Earlier, Syachrul Nugroho, a spokesman for Surabaya’s Tanjung Perak port, gave a lower figure for the number of missing.
“We don’t know if they’re still on the boat,” he said.
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
Nugroho said it appeared a fire had broken out and the ferry’s power went down, cutting off its water pumps.
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“The crew couldn’t extinguish the fire because the water pumps weren’t working so passengers started to abandon the ship,” he added.
Passenger ferries are a common means of transport in Indonesia, an archipelago of around 17,000 islands, despite poor safety standards and frequent accidents.

In June, 21 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in rough seas off Java’s north coast.
About 160 people drowned when an Indonesian ferry sank into the depths of one of the world’s deepest lakes on Sumatra island last year.
And more than 300 people are estimated to have drowned in 2009 when a ferry sank between Sulawesi and Borneo.


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A passenger from the ferry that caught fire arrives at Tangjung Perak seaport in Surabaya, East Java, on Friday. Photo: AFP

A passenger of a ferry that caught fire receives a medical treatment after being evacuated, at Tangjung Perak seaport, in Surabaya, East Java, on August 23, 2019. - At least four people died and nearly three dozen were missing after a passenger ferry went up in flames off Indonesia's Java island, authorities said on August 23. (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP)

Passengers of a ferry that caught fire gather at Tangjung Perak seaport, after being evacuated, in Surabaya, East Java, on August 23, 2019. - At least four people died and nearly three dozen were missing after a passenger ferry went up in flames off Indonesia's Java island, authorities said on August 23. (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP)

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epa07611442 A rescue boat searches for victims after a tourist boat crashed with another ship, overturned and sank in the River Danube, in Budapest, Hungary, 29 May 2019, killing at least three of the 34 people onboard, mostly tourists from Eastern Asia. EPA-EFE/Zsolt Szigetvary HUNGARY OUT

An official from South Korea's Embassy in Budapest stands in front of the Viking Cruises Sigyn hotel-boat on the banks of the Danube River in downtown Budapest on May 30, 2019. - Seven South Korean tourists were killed and 19 missing after a pleasure boat capsized on the Danube in the Hungarian capital, the foreign ministry said on May 30, 2019. A total of 33 South Koreans were onboard and seven have been rescued, with a rescue operation underway for the missing 19, it said, adding the boat capsized after a collision on May 29 with a cruise ship, without elaborating further. (Photo by GERGELY BESENYEI / AFP)

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epa07611443 Rescuers and police officers inspect the dark water from a bridge after a tourist boat crashed with another ship, overturned and sank in River Danube, in Budapest, Hungary, 29 May 2019, killing at least three of the 34 people onboard, mostly tourists from Eastern Asia. EPA-EFE/Zsolt Szigetvary HUNGARY OUT

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Crew unable to put out flames as blaze had cut off water pumps, prompting passengers to abandon vessel
Boat was travelling from Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya to Balikpapan on Borneo island with about 280 people aboard



Crew unable to put out flames as blaze had cut off water pumps, prompting passengers to abandon vessel.
