Survivor on Indonesia ferry sinking; 25 missing

Rescuers in Indonesia were searching for 25 people still missing after a ferry sank in the Makassar Strait in Central Sulawesi province, officials said Sunday.

The head of the South Sulawesi National Search and Rescue Agency said that total of 42 people were on the boat when it sank in bad weather on Thursday morning while travelling from a seaport in Makassar to Kalmas Island in Pangkep Regency.

Seventeen people were later rescued, including some by two tugboats that were at sea at the time of the incident. Two ferries and a search and rescue boat, along with local fishing boats, are involved in the search for the missing passengers.