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The Egyptian Ferry Disaster: Waves of anger and loss
In Safaga, Mohamed El-Sayed and Magda El-Ghitany witness the tragic ramifications of the sinking of Al-Salam Boccaccio 98
Tossed to and fro by the waves, 6-year-old Mohamed Hassanein was alone in the middle of the Red Sea. It was completely dark, and the little boy was freezing. His parents had thrown him and his 3-year-old sister into an overcrowded lifeboat as the ferry they were on rapidly sank into the sea. When the lifeboat was later overturned in a crush of desperately drowning humanity, the sea swallowed up the three-year-old girl, just as it had her parents and the ferry itself. Six hours later, Mohamed -- who was wearing a life jacket -- was picked up from the choppy waters by rescuers.
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It is almost a week since Al-Salam 98 sank beneath the waters of the Red Sea. The ferry was carrying 1,414 passengers, more than a thousand of whom perished in the disaster. The official investigation into the causes of the sinking of the 35-year-old boat has yet to make its finding public, leading to a spate of speculation and rumour.
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"The lives of Egyptians are, alas, very cheap."
The comment was typical of many made following the sinking in the Red Sea of the ferry Salam Boccaccio 98 on Friday, a catastrophe that claimed the lives of 1,000 of the 1,400 passengers. The government's handling of the disaster acted to compound public shock which quickly turned to anger when it became clear that the rescue operation had begun five hours after the ferry sank, leaving many to perish in the water.
Dumbfounded by news that the ship had sunk, relatives of the passengers were forced to journey back and forth between Hurghada and Safaga seeking information on the fate of family members -- information the boat's owners, Salam Maritime, did not provide. On Sunday they watched in disbelief as a group of young men tossed dozens of body bags containing victims into a refrigerated truck, where they were stacked one on top of another. The fortunate ones found their dead, the others were obliged to prolong their agony.
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