Four Australian tourists and three Indonesian crew were missing off the eastern coast of Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday after their wooden speedboat lost contact in bad weather, the national rescue agency said.
The 10-metre vessel was travelling from North Nias Island to Aceh's Banyak Island. The boat lost contact at around 6 p.m. on Sunday."We will continue the search operation on Tuesday morning," the head of Nias's rescue agency, Oktavianto, told Reuters.
The four tourists were among a group of 12 Australians travelling to Banyak Island. The other eight were in another boat. Accidents involving boats are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, as lax safety standards often allow vessels to be overloaded without adequate life-saving equipment.
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