Two years after ferry tragedy, grieving relatives await salvage
Most of the victims were schoolchildren when the ship sank off the southwestern island of Jindo, in a tragedy caused by human error that shocked and enraged the country. Salvage crews are now preparing for the challenging task of raising the 6,825-tonne ferry -- a key demand of victims' families, who cling to hope that nine bodies still unaccounted for may yet be recovered. Mourners queued to lay flowers in front of hundreds of portraits of victims on an altar set up beside a street in central S
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