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Divers feel with their hands for corpses in cold depths of South Korean ferry

BY JU-MIN PARK (Reuters) – The confirmed death toll from a sunken South Korean ferry is rising faster as divers penetrate the dark, cold waters inside, feeling for children’s bodies with their hands as they swim through a maze of cabins, corridors and upturned decks. The divers, with oxygen and communications lines trailing, can only see a few inches in front of them as they search areas of the ship where the children were told […]