Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Australia Ferry Crash Kills 3

SYDNEY, Australia - A passenger ferry collided with a pleasure boat under Sydney's iconic harbor bridge Wednesday night, killing at least three people and injuring eight others, officials and witnesses said.

The ferry plowed over the smaller boat, throwing its passengers into the water in the collision, which occurred about 10:45 p.m., witnesses and New South Wales state police said.

All of the casualties were aboard the smaller boat. Two men and a woman were killed, and police divers were searching Thursday for a 14-year-old girl who was thrown from the wooden pleasure cruiser, police said.

"The boat basically just disintegrated," said witness Clive Marshall, …

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