Ships collide, four killed

Ships collide, four killed

JAKARTA (JP): Four people died when the Indonesian ship KM
Sinabung collided at dawn yesterday with the Panama tanker MT
World Nord in the Strait of Malacca, some 80 nautical miles from
Dumai port in Riau, Antara said.

Sinabung was en route from Belawan, Medan, North Sumatra, to
Tanjung Priok, Jakarta. The tanker was sailing from Singapore to
Spain.

According to the state shipping company PT Pelni's spokesman,
Sudarsono, the four victims were crushed in the parts of the two
ships that collided.

A PT Pelni operational department official, Ismail, said the
bodies were evacuated to Morong yesterday afternoon by a team
dispatched from Dumai. Another 1,348 passengers aboard the
Sinabung continued their trip to Tanjung Priok because the ship
could still sail normally, he said.