Greek rescuers search burning ferry for 12 missing people

By COSTAS KANTOURIS, DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS
Associated Press

CORFU, Greece (AP) — Rescue teams in Greece are searching a burning ferry for 12 people believed to be missing after the ferry caught fire in the Ionian Sea while en route to Italy. The ferry was burning for a second day Saturday while passengers described a frightening evacuation from it. Firefighters worked all night to try to extinguish the blaze on the Euroferry Olympia, which was carrying more than 290 passengers and crew. Most were evacuated. One truck driver said when he got onto a rescue boat that he had “escaped hell.”’ A Greek coast guard spokeswoman told The Associated Press that none of the 12 missing people had been found. The ferry was traveling from Greece to Brindisi in Italy.