MISSING EUROFERRY OLYMPIA PASSENGER FOUND ALIVE OFF THE COAST OF CORFU AFTER A FERRY FIRE

  • 20/02/2022

Authorities say one of the passengers who went missing after a ship caught fire near Greece on Friday has been recovered alive. The 21-year-old Belarussian truck driver climbed down from the ferry onto a tugboat using a ladder. "Tell me I'm alive," he said first. According to the driver, he heard additional voices on the ship. Eleven individuals are still missing, while over 270 have been rescued and transferred to the island of Corfu. The Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia caught fire while en way to Brindisi, Italy. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the captain and two engineers were temporarily held before being freed to testify. 

Small fires continued to burn inside the vessel on Sunday after it was towed to a secure area north of Corfu, Greek news site Kathimerini reports. Those people missing are all thought to be lorry drivers from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, Greek authorities said earlier. The Euroferry Olympia had left Igoumenitsa in Greece for Brindisi when the fire broke out on a car deck.

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