23-03-2017 09:17

Sunken South Korean ferry slowly emerges three years after disaster

By Ju-min ParkSEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, slowly emerged from a gray sea on Thursday, a somber reminder of a tragedy that traumatized the country."We can't help but feel stunned seeing the ship being raised," Lee Kum-hee, whose daughter Cho Eun-hwa was one of the nine, told reporters."The work needs to be done very cautiously," Lee Cheol-jo, an official at the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries,
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