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Over 1200 Passengers Rescued from Burning Ferry in the Red Sea, One Dead & Many Injured

By Jim Walker on November 4, 2011
Posted in Fires

A fire broke out yesterday aboard an Egyptian bound ferry, the Pella, in the Gulf of Aqaba, which is the northeastern tip of the Red Sea.

There were approximately 1240 passengers aboard the cruise ferry at the time of the fire.  The ferry was ten miles off of the coast of Jordan.  A number of military…

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