Friday, February 03, 2006

Echoes of the Titanic

Not quite a glorious floating city, and certainly not an iceberg, but the death toll may be as high, or even higher:
An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying nearly 1,500 people sank in the Red Sea early Friday during bad weather, and rescue ships and helicopters pulled dozens of survivors and bodies from the water. Egypt's transport minister said 203 survivors have been rescued.

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