Rescue teams were still searching Sunday for a person missing after a passenger ferry with almost 200 people onboard caught fire in Indonesia's Molucca Sea.
Passengers and the ship's crew were forced to abandon ship when the boat caught fire while traveling to a remote island in eastern Indonesia Saturday.
The fire started around 15 minutes after passenger ferry KM Karya Indah left port at Ternate, the provincial capital of North Maluku province.
"The search is still continuing. Today's search and rescue plan (will be conducted) by a joint search and rescue team," Reuters quoted the chief of the Ternate search and rescue team, Muhamad Arafah, as saying in a statement Sunday.
Dramatic video from Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency showed the boat engulfed in thick black smoke and part of the boat in flames as passengers jumped from the deck to lifeboats and into the water.
Some suffered injuries, including abrasions and hypothermia and many were in shock, according to a local official. The passenger boat, while visibly charred, remained afloat after the fire was extinguished.
The rescued passengers were taken to Sanana by search and rescue speed boats. Based on preliminary reports, the fire started in the vessel's engine room, according to Reuters.
All 181 passengers, including 22 children and 14 crew members, were rescued and safely evacuated to a nearby island, according to representative for the sea transportation directorate general Wisnu Wardana.
Wardana said fishing boats in the area took part in the rescue.
Incidents involving passenger boats are frequent in Indonesia. In 2006 and 2009, Indonesian ferries sank in stormy weather - each leaving hundreds dead.
In 2018, a ferry sank on Lake Toba on North Sumatra because of overloading - killing up to 167 people, RT.com reported.
