A person has been discovered alive on a ferry, which has been ablaze for 3 days, off the coast of Greece, authorities have stated.
The person, a 21-year-old truck driver from Belarus, was discovered on the Euroferry Olympia on Sunday on the third day of a search-and-rescue operation.
As reported by the Agence France-Presse information company, citing native media stories, rescuers noticed the person on the ferry because it was being towed to port in Corfu.
"Inform me I am alive!" the 21-year-old is reported to have shouted to rescuers, in accordance with the newspaper Proto Thema.
The truck driver then used a ladder to climb off the stricken ferry to a ready tugboat. The person advised Greek media that he was capable of hear different voices on board the vessel, in accordance with the BBC.
The Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia caught fireplace 10 miles north of the island of Corfu at round 4:12 a.m native time whereas it was crusing from Igoumenitsa in Greece to Brindisi in Italy.
On Friday, the Grimaldi Group, the corporate which operates the Euroferry Olympia, introduced that two different passengers who have been caught on the vessel had been rescued.
The 2 passengers, a Bulgarian and an Afghan citizen, have been each safely evacuated and brought to a hospital in Corfu for a medical check-up.
"The administration of the Grimaldi Group needs to specific its deep gratitude to all of the Italian and Greek authorities concerned within the rescue operations, particularly to the Italian Guardia di Finanza and the Greek Coast Guard for his or her immediate intervention," the ferry firm stated in a press release.
No less than 11 individuals are nonetheless reported lacking. Based on the Grimaldi Group, there have been 239 passengers of varied nationalities on board the vessel, in addition to 51 crew members.
The ship was additionally carrying 153 industrial automobiles, and 32 passenger automobiles.
There aren't any reported gasoline spills or different varieties of environmental harm to the ocean on account of the fireplace.
The evacuated passengers and crew have been rescued by a vessel from Italy's Guardia di Finanza police unit and a ship from the Greek coast guard that have been within the space.
Danilo Carlucci, one of many rescued passengers, spoke of the panic which came about on board the ship amid the massive blaze.
"We noticed dying in entrance of us," Carlucci advised Reuters from Corfu.
The reason for the fireplace is beneath investigation, with indications that it began within the ship's maintain.
"Harm is extreme as a result of regardless of their efforts the crew was unable to extinguish the fireplace," Paul Kyprianou, a spokesman with Grimaldi Strains, advised Reuters.
The Grimaldi Group has been contacted for remark.
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