Ferry fire kills 16; more than dozen missing
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A fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry carrying 300 passengers, killing at least 16 people and causing scores to jump into the sea, officials said. More than a dozen people remained unaccounted for.
The fire started in a truck on the ferry’s car deck hours after the vessel left the capital, Jakarta, for the northwestern island of Bangka, port official Sato Bisri said.
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