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Families of Air Asia passengers grieve as rescuers find bodies and wreckage off the coast of Borneo

(Reuters) — Families of passengers on board missing Air Asia flight struggled to cope with their grief on Tuesday (December 30), after rescuers found wreckage and bodies in the sea off the coast of Borneo. Indonesia AirAsia’s flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost contact with air traffic control early on Sunday (December 28) during bad weather on a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. Indonesia’s search and rescue agency confirmed the debris was […]

Salvage operations continue on stricken Italian-flagged ferry; 10 confirmed dead

(Reuters) — Two Albanian seamen were killed during an operation to salvage a multi-deck car ferry two days after it caught fire in rough seas off Greece’s Adriatic Coast, a port authority official said on Tuesday (December 30). The deaths add to a toll of 10 confirmed victims of the disaster, which prompted a 36-hour rescue operation during which Italian and Greek helicopters airlifted more than 400 people from the smouldering hulk of the Norman […]