At least 6 dead, 7 missing after ferry sinks nears Bali

Rescuers searched into the night Tuesday for seven missing people after a ferry sank with 41 passengers and 12 crew members onboard in rough seas near Indonesia's resort island of Bali, killing at least six people. Officials said 40 people, many unconscious after drifting in choppy waters for hours, were rescued. 

The ferry, the KMP Yunice, sank about half an hour after leaving East Java's Ketapang port, authorities said. Rescuers were battling waves up to 13 feet high in darkness to search for the missing people. In one of the country's worst recorded disasters, an overcrowded passenger ship sank in February 1999 with 332 people aboard. There were only 20 survivors.