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Ferry stricken by blaze fully evacuated, 10 dead - video

Reuters

December 30, 2014

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Rescue teams evacuate more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece’s Adriatic coast in a 36-hour operation on roiling seas, but 10 people were killed.

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