The World - News from July 18, 1988

Brazilian coast guard officials used a giant crane to pull up a sunken Amazon ferry and found 15 bodies inside, raising the death toll to 58 in one of Brazil’s worst shipping disasters. The ferry Cachoeira do Arari, packed with up to three times its maximum capacity of 60 people, was making the overnight voyage from Belem to the port of Cachoeira do Arari on Friday when it struck the underwater wreckage of another vessel and sank shortly before midnight. Seventy-nine people were rescued or swam to safety, police said. About 32 people are still missing and believed dead. An official said 43 of the victims had been identified and that none were foreigners.