According to the national search and rescue agency on 24 July, Indonesian authorities retrieved the dead of 15 passengers and were looking for another 19 individuals who went missing when a small ferry overturned during a short 20-minute ride on Sulawesi island.
Only six of the 40 people on board were reported to have survived the Sunday (23 July) night crash.
The boat was ferrying people across a 1 kilometer (less than half a mile) distance in Muna island, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of Kendari, the capital of Southeast Sulawesi province.
The travel between two small communities on either side of Mawasangka Bay was supposed to take only 20 minutes.
The agency reported that teams searching for the missing were diving near the wreckage of the ship and exploring adjacent seas in rubber boats.
