12 people still missing aboard burning ferry boat north of Corfu

Greece’s shipping ministry, which oversees the coast guard, on Friday evening clarified that one of two men rescued from the garage of a burning ferry boat hours earlier was not listed on an official passenger’s manifest, meaning that the number of missing is still 12.

A desperate rescue effort had freed two trapped men from the garage of the burning “Euroferry Olympia”, which issued a SOS in the early morning hours of Friday while sailing north of the Ionian Island of Corfu.

According to Mega channel in Athens, the two rescued individuals were a Turk and a Bulgarian national.

Efforts are continuing for 12 missing passengers, with a specialist unit of Hellenic Coast Guard divers headed to the stricken vessel