(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Seoul May 02 - Five more bodies were recovered from a sunken ferry on Friday amid concerns that swift currents will hamper search operations and may have swept many bodies far away from the sinking site.
Since the ferry Sewol carrying 476 people capsized off South Korea's southwestern island of Jindo on April 16 a total of 226 people have been confirmed dead mostly high school students on a field trip to the southern resort island of Jeju according to the Yonhap news agency.
With 76 people still remaining missing concerns have grown that the bodies of possible victims could be lost. Fueling such fears was the recovery of a body earlier in the day from waters about 4 kilometers from the accident site. Two days ago one body was spotted some 2 kilometers away.
A total of 174 people including most of its crew members were rescued from the ill-fated boat on the day of the tragedy but no one has been found alive since.
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