Tv footage exhibits smoke nonetheless billowing from the ferry greater than 72 hours after fireplace ripped via the vessel.
Greek firefighters and coastguards have resumed the seek for 10 folks nonetheless lacking from final week’s ferry fireplace that killed a truck driver.
Tv footage confirmed smoke nonetheless billowing from the Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia on Monday, greater than 72 hours after a hearth ripped via the vessel because it sailed from Igoumenitsa in Greece to Brindisi in Italy with almost 300 folks on board.
“It’s a very tough operation,” a hearth division spokeswoman informed the AFP information company on Monday.
Greater than 40 firefighters have been participating within the search and rescue operation with tugboats and coastguard vessels on standby close by.
“There’s main thermal stress and loads of smoke,” the spokeswoman stated.
A lot of the passengers have been rapidly evacuated, and a 21-year-old Belarusian truck driver emerged alive on Sunday. However 10 different truck drivers – seven Bulgarians, two Greeks and one Turk – stay unaccounted for.
The physique of a 58-year-old Greek truck driver was recovered on Sunday, the primary confirmed demise within the accident.
Two of these rescued have been Afghans not on the record, sparking fears that extra undocumented passengers may additionally have been on board.
The lacking drivers reportedly slept of their automobiles, as a result of cabins on the ferry have been unsuitable, in response to the Greek truck drivers’ union.
“We had many complaints about dwelling situations for the drivers,” union chairman Akis Dermatis informed Greek public tv ERT.
The ferry’s homeowners, Grimaldi Strains, rejected the accusations, saying in a press release on Sunday that an inspection by the authorities within the port of Igoumenitsa two days earlier than the hearth had been “passable”.
The final fireplace on board a ship within the Adriatic occurred in December 2014 on the Italian ferry Norman Atlantic, during which 13 folks died.