A mother’s wail for her missing child pierced the morning silence in the Korean port of Paengmok on Thursday as the Sewol ferry was raised from its cold watery grave, three years after sinking with the loss of over 300 lives.
A mother’s wail for her missing child pierced the morning silence in the Korean port of Paengmok on Thursday as the Sewol ferry was raised from its cold watery grave, three years after sinking with the loss of over 300 lives.
Most of the 304 victims of the Sewol ferry disaster on 16 April 2014 were teenage school children from the Danwon High School in Ansan, near the capital, Seoul. Many perished after being told to wait in their cabins instead of evacuating. Nine bodies were never found.
“I really miss you, my son. I hope he gets out of the freezing water and meets me here,” the mother of Yang Seung-jin, a teacher, told the Korean Herald as she wept on the island of Jindo, near where the ship went down.
“How handsome my son is! He was a good son, father, husband and teacher. Who would have known that he would die just like this?” she asked.
A nxious families gathered on a boat to oversee the raising of the ship, while others watched from the top of a hill onshore.
