More ten bodies grabbed from sunken ferry

South Korea has recovered ten more bodies trapped in a sunken ferry, in an attempt to find 100 still missing passengers.

According to the South Korean Coast Guard, the ten bodies were found by rescue workers during an overnight job Tuesday afternoon, raising the death toll to 203.

After recovering four corpses the divers have been endeavoring to re-enter the sunken ship to pull out the others.

“Our job will focus on searching the right side of the fourth floor of the boat … as we’ve failed to gain access to the side because the ship was sunken with the right side touching the bottom,” an official of the state response team said.

The 6,825-ton ferry was reportedly carrying an estimated 3,608 tons of cargo — more than three times what an inspector said it could safely carry.

The vessel sank en route to the resort Island of Jeju on April 15. Of the 476 people on board the ferry, only 175 were rescued.

Relatives of the passengers have blasted South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s government, saying delays in launching the rescue raised the death toll.

Critics say valuable time was wasted during the first emergency call from a passenger to the Coast Guard office, as the eighteen-year old boy was asked to provide longitude and latitude information.

The ship’s captain, Lee Joon-seok, initially told passengers to stay in their rooms and took half an hour to issue an evacuation order, by which time the ship was tilting too severely for many people to get out.

Following the disaster, authorities arrested Lee and other crewmembers on negligence charges. The ship’s captain has also been charged with undertaking an “excessive change of course without slowing down.”

South Korean president has apologized for her government’s failure to prevent a ferry disaster that left hundreds of people dead or missing.