Almost 300 people listed as missing.
.....A passenger ship with 459 people aboard, mostly high school students, sank in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday morning, leaving at least three people dead and 292 others missing, a senior government official said.
Kang Byung-kyu, minister of security and public administration, told reporters that one more was confirmed dead, sending the total death toll as of 6 p.m. local time to three, including a 22-year- old female crew member and two male high school students.
A total of 164 people have been confirmed rescued and among them, 78 were high school students. More than 50 people were transferred to nearby hospitals, but most of them had minor injuries, according to Kang.
According to the ministry, 292 people were still missing, but the figure may increase to 295 as the Coast Guard said people on board the vessel was 462, instead of 459 confirmed by the ministry.
Figures by the ministry showed the ferry carried 30 crew members and 429 passengers, including 325 high school students and 15 teachers who had been on the way for a school journey.
The 6,825-ton passenger ship "SEWOL" was capsized and sank down into waters off the Jindo Island, just off the southwest corner of the Korean Peninsula, at around 11:30 a.m. local time Wednesday.....
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