Ship sinks with tons of rice

KUPANG (Jakarta Post), East Nusa Tenggara: A ship from the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar sank off Alor, East Nusa Tenggara on Wednesday.

Forty tons of rice were on board when the ship was capsized by massive waves up to three meters high.

All eight people aboard survived and had been taken to Kabir village on Pantar Island.

This is reported to be the fourth such disaster in the past two weeks.

The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency has issued rough seas danger warnings for various parts of the country.