Overcrowded ship's o causes a panic

Overcrowded ship's o causes a panic

Passengers on the KM Kelud panicked during a stop in Batam, Riau
Islands province, on Friday night when they learned the ship,
bound from Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta to Medan in North
Sumatra, was carrying 6,000 passengers, far more than the maximum
2,600 passengers the craft is officially allowed to carry.

The sale of fake tickets was blamed for the large number of
passengers being carried on the ship. The KM Kelud's captain,
Nunung Wisnu, however, said the ship would depart for Medan as
planned because it was able to take up to five times the
officially allowed number of passengers. -- JP