(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) ndo South Korea April 20 -South Korean divers retrieved 18 more bodies on Sunday all from inside the sunken ferry Sewol as hopes were fading rapidly for any survivors among hundreds of people who still remained missing. This brought to 58 the total number of people who have been confirmed dead since the 6825-ton ferry sank off Jindo an island off South Korea's southwest coast on Wednesday on its way to the southern resort island of Jeju. Earlier today fifty-six people have been confirmed dead and 248 missing as of Sunday morning from the sinking of the six-thousand-800 ton ship the Sewol off the southern coast of South Korea. Officials at the government's emergency rescue operations headquarters told reporters that divers entered the sunken vessel and retrieved three bodies Saturday night. The three victims are high school students who were on a school trip to Jeju island.
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