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Urgent: Officials start evacuation for scuttled Indonesian vessel off Bali strait

Xinhua, March 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

Officials have started evacuation efforts after an Indonesian landing craft tank boat (LCT) sank off the Bali strait on Friday afternoon.

The Revalia LCT boat had departed from Gilimanuk port in Bali at 12:50 p.m. local time before it sank 15 minutes later off the Bali strait which connects the resort island with Java island.

The vessel was scheduled to arrive in Ketapang port in East Java's Banyuwangi district, which is the easternmost region of Java island.

At least 48 passengers aboard the vessel, which is widely used to transport people and heavy machinery, survived the incident and were successfully evacuated, according to Abdullah Azwar Anas, head of Banyuwangi district.

However, 32 vehicles on board drowned along with the boat.

The cause of the accident has not been determined.

At its narrowest, the Bali strait, which also connects the Indian Ocean and the Bali Sea, is 2.4 kilometers wide. Endit