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South Korea Ferry Heartache: Pair Tied Life Jackets Together

April 24, 2014 by  

South Korea Ferry Heartache: Pair Tied Life Jackets Together, A boy and girl trapped in a sinking South Korean ferry tied their life jacket cords together, a diver who recovered their bodies said Thursday – the latest heartbreaking twist in the grim task of recovery at the scene.

The diver said he had to separate the pair because he could not carry two corpses to the surface at the same time.

“I started to cry thinking that they didn’t want to leave each other,” he told the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper on the island of Jindo, near where the overloaded Sewol went down on April 16.

It was one of many sad stories to emerge as the confirmed death toll from the disaster reached 171 on Thursday, leaving 131 still missing, presumed drowned.

As the ferry began sinking, the captain ordered passengers not to move – a decision that now appears to have cost hundreds of lives.

The victims were mostly high school students and their teachers setting out on a field trip from the city of Ansan to the island of Jeju.

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