Boy who raised alarm on doomed Korean ferry had no time to call parents

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The boy, with the family name of Choi, called the emergency 119 number which put him through to the fire service, which in turn forwarded him to the coastguard two minutes later. That was followed by about 20 other calls from children to the emergency number, a fire service officer told Reuters. More than 300 people, most of them students and teachers from one high school on a field trip, have died or are missing and presumed dead.




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