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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Rescue officials searched the South Pacific’s waters for 33 people missing after a ferry sank during the night off the coast of Tonga, New Zealand rescue coordinators said today.
The ferry sank fast “but we don’t know why,” New Zealand Rescue Coordination Center spokesman Neville Blackmore.
He said the ferry was carrying 45 passengers and 30 crew members when it went down about 54 miles northeast of the Tongan capital, Nuku’alofa. It was headed to Ha’afeva, in the nearby Nomuka Islands.
