The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students

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16. Apr. 2014

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34.24° N, 125.87° E

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The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students.

Platziert: coordinates of the event it links, Sinking of MV Sewol.

2014 ferry sinking disaster in South Korea

On the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 2014, the ferry MV Sewol sank while en route from Incheon towards Jeju City in South Korea. The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres north of Byeongpungdo at 08:58 KST. Out of 476 passengers and crew, 304 people died in the disaster, including around 250 students from Danwon High School in Ansan. Around 82% of the Sewol's casualties were children.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „Sewol faciası: Güney Kore bayraklı MV Sewol, alabora oldu ve battı“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „крушение парома «Севоль» у юго-западного побережья Южной Кореи“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „Al menos 280 personas murieron y 100 siguen desaparecidas tras el naufragio del Sewol en Corea del Sur“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „كارثة انقلاب العبارة الكورية الجنوبية (2014) تؤدي لمصرع 276 شخص وإلى استقالة رئيس جمهورية البلاد لاحقًا“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „世越号沉没事故“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · nennt es „大韓民国全羅南道珍島沖で、仁川港から済州島へ向け航行していたクルーズ旅客船「セウォル号」が沈没、死者299人を出す海難事故が発生（セウォル号沈没事故）。“Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Quellseite