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Divers feel with their hands for corpses in sunken Korean ferry

Published Wed, Apr 23, 2014 · 10:00 PM
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[SEOUL] South Korean divers swam though dark, cold waters into a sunken ferry yesterday, feeling for children's bodies with their hands in a maze of cabins, corridors and upturned decks as they searched for hundreds of missing.

The divers, with oxygen and communications lines trailing, can see only a few inches in front of them in the wreckage of the ship that started sinking a week ago after a sharp turn. Most of the victims were high school children, who…

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