Rescuers in Indonesia locate a tourist boat that sank two weeks ago and recover a body, as the search continues for one final missing Spanish child.
MAUMERE: Indonesian rescuers have found a tourist boat that sank in rough seas nearly two weeks ago.
They also recovered the body of one of the two remaining missing Spanish victims, an official said on Tuesday.
Seven people on board were rescued alive when the boat went down in eastern Indonesia on December 26.
Four others, a Spanish man and three of his children, were declared missing.
The search mission had already recovered the bodies of the 44-year-old football coach Fernando Martin Carreras and his daughter.
Fathur Rahman, head of the local search and rescue agency, said the shipwreck was found about 14 kilometres from the accident site in the Padar Island Strait.
“The third victim was retrieved after we were informed by a fisherman that he had discovered a body and the hull of the boat,” Fathur said at a press conference.
The body was taken to a hospital for identification.
Carreras’s wife and one of their daughters were among those rescued alive.
The search for the last missing victim, a boy from the same family, will continue on Wednesday.
The operation has included sweeping nearby islands, deploying sonar and carrying out dives.
It will now expand to cover a larger area, Fathur added.
Maritime accidents occur regularly in Indonesia, an archipelago of around 17,000 islands.
They are often due to lax safety standards or bad weather.
