25 missing after cargo boat sinks in Indonesia

Associated Press

MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 25 people who are missing after a cargo boat sank in the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province. A total of 42 people were on the boat when it sank in bad weather on Thursday morning while traveling from a seaport in Makassar to Kalmas Island in Pangkep Regency, the head of the provincial search and rescue agency said Sunday. Seventeen people were later rescued, including by two tugboats that were at sea at the time of the incident. The sunken vessel was initially said to be a passenger ferry, but officials later clarified that it was a cargo boat carrying construction materials and passengers.