Jakarta, July 11 -- The death toll from the sinking of a passenger ship in Indonesia's Bali Strait rose to 17 on Friday, as search teams shifted their focus to the possibility of accessing the sunken vessel.
At a virtual joint press conference, Ribut Eko Suyanto, deputy for search and rescue operations at the National Search and Rescue Agency, confirmed that two more bodies were recovered on Friday.
"The joint rescue team discovered two bodies, and we have evacuated them," he said, adding that both victims had been transported to a hospital for identification.
Suyanto noted that the search was now focusing on the southern part of the strait, following reports from local fishermen who found several objects believed to be parts of the wrec...