Rescuers save 231 after ferry sinks

SAFAGA, Egypt - Hundreds of Egyptian men crowded around the entrance to Safaga port on Friday, weeping and angry as they awaited news of relatives missing on a ferry which sank overnight in the Red Sea.
"They are not telling us anything," Gadir Mohammed shouted. "Where are the corpses? Where are they taking the survivors?"
One man wept on another's shoulder and people around him tried to comfort him. "God willing, he'll come. God willing, he'll come," one of them said.
Search and rescue teams have found 231 survivors and 185 dead bodies so far after the ship sank during a crossing from the Saudi port of Duba to Safaga, 600 km (375 miles) southeast of Cairo.
But hundreds more are missing and rescue workers are running out of hope of finding more survivors. The ferry, which last had contact with the shore at about 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday, was carrying more than 1,300 people.
The relatives, mostly male and dressed in traditional Egyptian robes common in rural areas, and mainly from families of Egyptians working in Saudi Arabia, sat on the pavement outside the gates of the port.