Greek firefighters and coastguards have resumed the search for 10 people still missing from last week’s ferry fire that killed a truck driver.
The fire on the Italian-flagged, Euroferry Olympia, is burning for a fourth day.
“It is a very difficult operation,” a fire department spokeswoman told the AFP news agency on Monday.
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More than 40 firefighters and two helicopters are currently taking part in the search and rescue operation with tugboats, and coastguard vessels are on standby nearby.
A total of 281 people have already been rescued. They included two men who were airlifted by rescuers off the ferry and a third man who managed to free himself and reach the deck of the vessel after being trapped for more than two days.
The body of a 58-year-old Greek truck driver was recovered on Sunday, the first confirmed death in the accident.
Ten other truck drivers – seven Bulgarians, two Greeks and one Turk – remain unaccounted for.
Relatives of the missing passengers are waiting for news outside the port authority on the Greek island of Corfu.
The last fire on board a ship in the Adriatic occurred in December 2014 on the Italian ferry, Norman Atlantic, in which 13 people died.
Source: AlJazeera.
