Along the coast of the Indonesian island of Java sinking ship, which was carrying 380 people.

Passengers of the vessel were migrants, mostly from the Middle East.

According to local authorities, hundreds of passengers still unaccounted for. Their fate is now being clarified. Work at the site of search and rescue teams.

Recall that in the crash of the ship in the Indonesian province of West Java on Tuesday, November 1, at least seven migrants from the Middle East have been killed and more than a dozen missing.

As a representative of the local police told Herus Rusman, a wooden boat went out Pangandarana in West Java about two o'clock in the morning and swam in Kupang in East Nusa Tenggara. According to the representative, about five o'clock in the morning six bodies were found in the water, it's two girls and four women. Other victims were found several hours later. Rusman said that 48 people were rescued.

Recall that in late September of this year, after the collapse of a small pleasure craft off the coast of the Indonesian island of Madura killed 13 people.

The bodies of the dead passengers were found by local police as a result of prospecting. 12 passengers were rescued. According to information received, ship carried members of the wedding ceremony. Thus, all aboard the sunken vessel was at least 25 people.

Note ferry is one of the main ways of communication between the numerous islands of the Indonesian archipelago. However, conditions on the ferries are very low.

As a rule, smaller vessels are not equipped with rescue facilities and at sea are sent stretched. So, in January 2010, overloaded ship sank near Sulawesi, killing 335 passengers .