Indonesia rescuers search for 140 people from stricken ferry

An Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people lost contact with authorities in the Java Sea on Sunday after it was hit by bad weather. Local authorities said 102 people were brought to safety and one person had died. Some 140 passengers are still missing. "We have carried out efforts to search for victims to the fullest extent. There were passengers who ... had already been successfully evacuated by the units at the scene," I Putu Sudayana, head of the Banjarmasin Search and Rescue Office, told reporters. The Virgo Transport 8 was traveling from Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya to Banjarmasin, the capital of South Kalimantan province. It departed on Saturday at 10:13 a.m.