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Chinese consortium to salvage sunken South Korean ferry
Published Tue, Aug 4, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Seoul
SOUTH Korean officials announced on Tuesday that a Chinese-led consortium had won the bidding to take on the massive task of raising the Sewol ferry that sank with the loss of over 300 lives a year ago.
The 6,825-tonne passenger ship sank off the country's southwest coast in April 2014. Most of the dead were children on a school trip. Nine remain unaccounted for in the accident, which deeply traumatised the nation, and the f…
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