(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Seoul May 04 - A dozen more bodies were retrieved from the sunken ferry Sewol on Sunday bringing the confirmed death toll to 248 and the number of those missing to 54 19 days after the ship sank off South Korea's southwest coast Yonhap News Agency reported.
The bodies were found on the third and fourth decks as divers focused on searching 64 compartments considered more likely to hold missing passengers among the total of 111 compartments. As of Sunday 61 compartments have been searched officials said.
The 6825-ton ferry Sewol capsized and sank off South Korea's southwestern island of Jindo on April 16 en route to the southern resort island of Jeju.
A total of 174 people including most of the ship's crew members were rescued within hours after the ship began to list but no one has been found alive since the ship sank.
The majority of the victims were teenage students from Danwon High School in the city of Ansan just south of Seoul. More than 300 students from the school's second-year class were aboard the ship on a field trip to Jeju Island.
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