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The blaze on the Italian-flagged Euroferry Olympia was burning for a fourth day on Monday

Rescuers are still looking for survivors after a ferry boat caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy.

Firefighters battling for a third day a blaze on a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy recovered on Sunday the body of a passenger listed as missing, Greek authorities said.

Efforts to bring the fire on the Italian Euroferry Olympia under control hampered by gale-force winds

Shocked and sleep-deprived, passengers rescued from a Greece-Italy ferry that caught fire off the island of Corfu said on Saturday they felt relieved to be alive, though some feared for their livelihoods after losing trucks and cargos.

Rescuers picked up the search for 12 missing people at the break of dawn on Saturday with the Italian-flagged ferry still burning on the Ionian Sea off Corfu. Overnight, patrol ships combed the area off the holiday island hoping to locate survivors, the Greek coastguard told AFP. The fire and…

Twelve people are still missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy early on Friday, Greek authorities said on Saturday, as firefighters battled for a second day to control the fire and crews towed the vessel closer to the shore.

Coast guard says 278 passengers and crew were rescued from a major fire that engulfed the Italy-bound ferry.