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Sunday, 20 April 2014

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20 April 2014 erupted at 07:27 updated wrangling as police prevented families from across a bridge

Families of passengers on a sunken South Korean ferry protested angrily about the bailout.


Police held up to 100 people, who are trying to March to the capital Seoul Jindo Island, intending to leave.


After more than three days divers have entered now the ferry 22 facilities to retrieve and brings the death toll to 54.


But missing another 248 people by Sewol ferry, which sank on Wednesday.


Some 174 passengers were rescued.


There was sadness, anger and despair as dozens of relatives, to push that through a massive police cordon. They said they wanted to March to occupy a house in the capital and the presidential election. It was a purely symbolic act, but yet another example of the frustrations of the related as Seoul drive 5 hours away.


Many parents of the missing students accept that their children don't come back.


Down at the Harbour, boats bring bodies ashore. Families are taken to a temporary morgue to identify the bodies. I heard a woman sobbing loudly from the inside.


With more than 200 in the ferry always still trapped, it will take recovery operation for several days.


The families wait nor ask now accelerated the process.

Many of the relatives of people aboard on Jindo dog, in the southwest of the country were since the capsizing.


Hundreds have at the gymnasium on the island was on news of the bailout camping.


Fights out, as some family members attempted to cross a bridge to the Mainland, allegedly broke around on the Presidential Blue House in Seoul, March about 420 kilometers (260 miles) to the North.


"The body bring me back so that I see the face and embrace my child," screamed a woman.


Lee Woon-geun, father of the missing passenger Lee young in, 17, said: "we do not go through a response from the contact person about why orders and nothing happens. "You are clearly and to be responsible for others."


Relatives are seeking called for the bodies before they decompose.


BBCs Jonathan Head on Jindo says that even the Prime Minister came to try the protesters down from the March on Seoul, with officials worried that the controversy is turning into a national political issue and the Government could damage to dissuade,.

Jonathan Head: "this is still a very slow process, painfully slow for the family"


Boats with 13 of the recently retrieved set reached Paengmok port Jindo on Sunday.

Graphic showing location of sunken ferry and timeline of events

Over 200 ships have 34 aircraft and 600 divers in the search process takes part, our correspondent says.


Squid fishing boats with powerful lights were brought to help the divers to work at night.


But the currents are still strong and the view remains difficult.


Coast Guard official Koh Myung-Seok told a briefing that divers discovered found a number of routes in the ferry and facilities at various locations.

"Inexperienced"

The captain and two other crew members are in custody and negligence of duty and was accused of violation of the law of the sea.


On Saturday, officials said, was that the ferry is controlled by an inexperienced third mate in unknown waters, when it sank.

A family member of a passenger missing after the South Korean ferry "Sewol" capsized demonstrates in front of police during a protest in Jindo calling for a meeting with President Park Geun-hye and demanding the search and rescue operation be speeded up, April 20Tempers sometimes flared up between the relatives of those on board and police South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won (2nd R) talks with relatives of missing passengers of a capsized ferry during a street protest condemning the government's rescue operations in Jindo early on April 20 the South Korea Prime Minister Chung Hong the nationals won addressed directly to the Sunday  South Korean rescue workers carry the body of a passenger who was on the capsized passenger ship Sewol which sank in the sea off Jindo, at a port where family members of missing passengers gather in Jindo April 20 rescue workers unloaded some of the facilities at a port Jindo on Sunday

The captain of the ferry, 69-year-old Lee Joon-Seok, was not originally on the bridge when the ship ran into trouble.


Sewol, capsized holiday island of Jeju at 476 million passengers and crew during a voyage from the port of Incheon, in the North West to the South.


Investigations concentrate on a sharp curve took the ship before it began listing and whether an evacuation order could have saved lives.


Some experts believe that the ship close could have replaced heavy cargo and destabilized the ship, while others admit to bear in mind that the fall could have been caused by a collision with a rock.


Inside a picture of people drew messages and calls of these trapped in crowded hallways, unable to escape the hot listing ferry.


Shots of the ship seemed to show statements by crew members to remain, for passengers on board even if it dramatically tilted to one side.


Some 350 of the people on board were students of Danwon high school in Ansan, a suburb of Seoul, were on a school trip, when the ferry sank.

bbc graphic

On Saturday, officials said that the operation on the ship to Bergen can take up to two months.


You have so far delayed the ferry because of possible threat to trigger possible survivors.


Now give to officials, that it very unlikely for someone else to have survived.


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