23-03-2017 18:57
South Korea raises sunken Sewol ferry
South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry emerged from the waters Thursday, nearly three years after it went down with the loss of more than 300 lives and dealt a crushing blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye.The complex operation -- one of the largest raisings of an entire ship ever attempted -- comes as the third anniversary approaches of one of the country's worst-ever maritime disasters.Almost all the dead were schoolchildren and it is thought that nine bodies still unaccounted for may be
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