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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Hundreds rescued, 29 die as Indonesia ferry sinks AFP - 2 hours 47 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Survivors are evacuated after the 147-tonne Dumai Express went down in heavy rain and huge swells off Karimun island. Twenty six people were killed and some 250 were rescued after a ferry sank in stormy seas off Indonesia's Sumatra island. JAKARTA (AFP) - – Rescuers on Sunday desperately hunted for survivors in the waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island after a ferry sank in stormy seas, killing at least 29 people, officials said. Nearly 250 people were pulled from the sea after the Dumai Express went down on Sunday morning in heavy rain and huge swells off Karimun island, near Singapore, in the north of the Indonesian archipelago. "There were a total of 291 people on board the ferry," Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, told AFP. "The information we have is 29 people have died and 245 have been saved. This means 17 are still missing." Overloading is common on vessels that ply the waters between the vast country's thousands of islands. The 147-tonne vessel had a capacity of 273 passengers and crew. Related article: Indonesian ferry captain blames storm as search resumes As the search for survivors resumed, captain Johan Napitupulu said he had no warning he was sailing into a massive storm when he left Batam on Sunday. "The weather was fine when we left Batam port. There was no sign of rain and we also didn't get any warning from anybody saying the weather could turn bad at sea," he told AFP. "About half an hour later the weather suddenly turned really, really bad. The waves were higher than two metres (six feet), the winds and currents were strong." He denied the vessel was overloaded or unfit to sail, and said the crew had done all it could to arrange life boats and jackets for the terrified passengers. Fishermen were among the first on the scene and pulled many of the survivors from safety, officials said. "I saw children running here and there on the ferry as they tried to escape but there weren't enough life jackets," a survivor told TVOne. Indonesia's catalogue of ferry disasters Officials feared some of the missing may have been trapped below deck, such was the speed at which the vessel sank. "Strong waves hit the ferry and caused the front part to crack. Water got in and within half an hour it sank," navy Lieutenant Colonel Edwin told AFP. "The ferry is underwater. We know its position but we have yet to check inside to see if there's anyone trapped." Search and rescue efforts were suspended overnight, he said, and were to continue at first light on Monday. Indonesia's 234 million people are spread across 17,000 islands and are heavily dependent on a network of ships and boats, which have a poor safety record. Ferry disasters are common despite repeated official promises to tighten and enforce safety regulations. Corruption is a major problem, with ships selling more tickets than they should and packing ferries with cargo in addition to passengers. An investigation is underway to determine if overloading contributed to Sunday's accident, sea transport director-general Sunaryo said. "If it was overloaded, that's against the rules and we won't tolerate that," he said. "We will investigate if the ferry was fit to sail and if its documents were complete. We'll also check whether the ship's captain and port master went ahead despite the bad weather or if the weather changed." Navy spokesman Iskandar Sitompul said the vessel sank after being hit by waves as high as three metres (10 feet), but other officials said the waves were towering up to six metres. "We're not sure if anyone is trapped in the ferry. Those who have been rescued are traumatised," he said, adding that navy ships were helping with the search and rescue effort. Earlier, transport ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan admitted that it was not uncommon for Indonesian ferries to be overloaded. "In normal conditions ferries can sail with a bit of over-capacity, but in heavier seas it's not good for stability. We're still investigating the cause of the sinking," he said. Another ferry travelling from Dumai to Moro island, near to where the Dumai Express sank, ran aground at around 2:00 pm but all 270 people on board were safe, Ervan said. Up to 335 people were killed when a heavily overloaded ferry sank off Sulawesi island in January. In December 2006 a ferry went down in a storm off the coast of Java, killing more than 500 people. 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