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Empty spaces mark Korean school tribute for missing ferry victims

Empty spaces mark Korean school tribute for missing ferry victims

A floral tribute to the children who drowned in a sinking South Korean ferry displays photographs of the victims in their school uniforms, while lines of empty spaces wait to be filled with photos once those still missing are confirmed dead.

 

According to Reuters, the pictures, flowers and spaces are banked up the entire wall of a gymnasium near Danwon High School in Ansan, on the outskirts of Seoul.

A crying university student Jung Sun-a, 24 said,”There are too many pictures, way more than I thought, and they are too young in these pictures. I really hope they can fulfill their dream in the next life. And I hope the missing kids will also come back to their parents as soon as possible.”

The Sewol ferry, weighing almost 7,000 tons, sank on a routine trip from the port of Incheon, near Seoul, to the southern holiday island of Jeju. Investigations are focused on human error and mechanical failure.

More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers from Danwon High School have died or are missing and presumed dead after the April 16 disaster.

The confirmed death toll on Friday was 181.

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