Video shows last minutes of passengers inside sinking ferry
- 10 years ago
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Video footage captured on a victim's mobile phone shows the final minutes of ferry passengers as a South Korean ferry capsized and sank.
The Sewol ferry was on a routine trip south from the port of Incheon to the traditional holiday island of Jeju on April 16.
More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers on a field trip from the Danwon High School on the outskirts of Seoul, died or are missing and presumed dead.
The confirmed death toll from the ferry disaster on Thursday (May 1) was 213 with about 90 people still unaccounted for.
In the footage provided by Newstapa, a website run by the Korean Center for Investigative Journalism, contains a conversation between students on board describing the moment of sinking.
"The ship is leaned over! Yo, save me!" one is heard saying.
"It's leaning this way and I can't move."
"Nonsense. I want to get off. I really mean it."
"Why are you pulling out
Video footage captured on a victim's mobile phone shows the final minutes of ferry passengers as a South Korean ferry capsized and sank.
The Sewol ferry was on a routine trip south from the port of Incheon to the traditional holiday island of Jeju on April 16.
More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers on a field trip from the Danwon High School on the outskirts of Seoul, died or are missing and presumed dead.
The confirmed death toll from the ferry disaster on Thursday (May 1) was 213 with about 90 people still unaccounted for.
In the footage provided by Newstapa, a website run by the Korean Center for Investigative Journalism, contains a conversation between students on board describing the moment of sinking.
"The ship is leaned over! Yo, save me!" one is heard saying.
"It's leaning this way and I can't move."
"Nonsense. I want to get off. I really mean it."
"Why are you pulling out