At least five people were killed, and 41 remained missing on Sunday after a ferry caught fire off Indonesia’s Madura Island, according to local media reports.
The ferry was travelling from Surabaya in East Java province to Makassar in South Sulawesi with 271 passengers and crew members on board. Authorities said 225 people had been rescued.
Rescue teams were evacuating passengers, including some who jumped into the sea to escape the blaze, the English-language daily Jakarta Globe reported.
Nanang Sigit, head of the Surabaya Search and Rescue Office, said several nearby vessels had joined the rescue operation.
