Wellington, New Zealand -
Officials searched for 27 missing people from a ferry sand at night of Wednesday, August 5th, 2009, in South Pacific water ofat Tonga, New Zealand.
The ferry sank quickly with no obvious reason, Neville Blackmore, spokesman of New Zealand Rescue Coordination Center, said they don’t know why it happened.
Country of New Zealand will look for the missing and rescue whoever’s in need of it, in Tonga area.
Blackmore said there were 49 passengers and 30 crew members on board when it sank at about 54 miles northeastern of Nuku’ alofa, Tongan capital. Official corrected the total number of people on board to 79, from an earlier report of 75.
42 people rescued had been on 7 life rafts, and Blackmore said there were only 8 rafts. 10 other people were found by 3 vessels pulling them from the ocean, while searching for survivors. The 4th vesel was still searching.
Royal New Zealand Air Force also sent an aeroplane for searching around 80 square miles for survivors.
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