Four dead, 284 missing in S. Korea ferry sinking (via AFP)

South Korean rescuers and dive teams worked frantically under floodlights as fears rose for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sank Wednesday with 462 on board, mostly high school students bound for a holiday island. National disaster agency officials…

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