00:02Indonesian authorities rescued 172 people on Wednesday after a ferry traveling from Bali to Lombok caught fire in the Lombok
00:11Strait, leaving one person dead.
00:13The KM Putri Yasmin Ferry was traveling from Padangbai Port in Bali to Lembar Port in Lombok when the incident
00:21occurred at about 4.39 a.m.
00:23One Indonesian national was confirmed dead while the survivors, comprising Indonesians and an Australian, were evacuated to ports in Bali
00:33and Lombok.
01:07The cause of the fire remains unclear, while authorities have yet to determine whether overcrowding was a factor.
01:13The incident comes less than a month after another ferry, KM Mutiara Sentosa II, caught fire off Madura Island, killing
01:23five people.
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