Indonesia Ferry 3 - WRAP Army ship arrives with dead and injured, wounded at hospital, relatives
NAME: INS FERRY 3 20070223I
TAPE: EF07/0227
IN_TIME: 11:02:21:24
DURATION: 00:02:59:15
SOURCES: AP/Metro TV
DATELINE: Jakarta, 22 Feb 2007
RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Indonesia
SHOTLIST:
Metro TV - No Access Indonesia
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Navy ship arriving at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta
2. Army and police officials carrying dead from the ship
3. Various of injured and unharmed passengers leaving the ship
4. Dead body being carried off ship
AP Television
Tanjung Priok Port Medical Centre
5. Exterior of Port Medical Centre
6. Wide of relatives inside the medical centre
7. Survivor, Badri, lying on bed
8. Close up of intravenous drip bottle
9. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Badri, Survivor:
"Lower deck was already full with fire. When I tried to reach the upper deck it was already full with fire too. So I just jumped into the sea, it's a life and death situation. I would rather die in the ocean than be burned alive".
10. Mother sitting on bed with her sick baby
11. Close up of baby survivor
12. Wide of family
13. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Agus Nurohman, Survivor:
"(When I was in the water) My daughter slipped away, I tried to find her, I grabbed her and lifted her up out of the water, so she could breathe. I didn't care if I drowned I just held on to the floating device".
AP Television
Tanjung Priok Port
14. Various of relatives checking pictures of victims and list of survivors
15. Wide of news conference
16. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Sato Bisri, Port Officer:
"There's no missing person from the accident. We have three hundred survivors and 16 died including children and babies."
17. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE
Indonesian naval ships scoured the Java Sea for survivors after a ferry that caught fire, killing at least 16 people and forcing terrified passengers to jump overboard, some clutching young babies.
Investigators said on Friday that chemicals appear to have fuelled the flames.
One father who was amongst the survivors described his fight to save his daughter, "I tried to find her, I grabbed her and lifted her up out of the water so she could breath. I didn't care if I drowned, I just held on to floating device," Agus Nurohman said.
A navy spokesman said more than a dozen people were missing one day after the accident, though with passenger manifests often incomplete the number could be higher.
However Port Officer Sato Bisri said there were no longer any missing people from the accident.
"We have three hundred survivors and 16 died including children and babies," Bisri said at a news conference held at the Tanjung Priok Port.
The Levina 1 was carrying more than 300 passengers, when the fire broke out in a truck on the car deck, hours after the ferry left the capital, Jakarta, for the northwestern island of Bangka.
More than 290 people were rescued from the sea by fishing boats, warships and helicopters.
The vessel's charred hull was also retrieved.
Indonesian television pictures showed police and army officials helping the survivors onto the shore.
Officials carried the dead from the naval ship through the crowds that had gathered after hearing about the fire.
One of the survivors told how he had jumped into the sea to escape the blaze, which quickly spread through the vessel..
"I just jumped into the sea, it's a life and death situation. I would rather die in the ocean than be burned alive".
In the vast nation of 17,000 islands, ferries are the cheapest and most popular form of public transportation but safety standards are poor, leading to hundreds of deaths each year.
Last year, Indonesia recorded more deaths from disasters than any other country, according to a UN tally, with a massive earthquake on Java killing nearly 6,000 - the highest death toll in a single event.
Since December, flooding and landslides on Java and Sumatra islands have killed more than 200 people and driven hundreds of thousands of residents from their homes.
In December, a ferry sank in a storm, killing more than 400 people.
Days after the December ferry disaster, a passenger plane operated by a budget airline crashed into the ocean, killing all 102 people aboard.
Keyword- ferry disaster