Recovery operations in South Korea´s ferry disaster resumed Tuesday after dangerous conditions forced a three-day break, while officials promised counselling for divers traumatised by retrieving children´s badly decomposed bodies from the sunken vessel.
Operations at the site off the southern coast, where the ferry sank on April 16, had been suspended since Saturday morning because of strong tidal currents and heavy swells.
Improved conditions allowed a team of 16 divers to access the submerged ferry in the early hours of Tuesday morning, but no bodies were recovered, coastguard spokesman Ko Myung-Suk told reporters.
The confirmed death toll stood at 275, with 29 still missing.
