Passengers of a ferry that sank off Northern Cyprus demanded that the ship be turned around before the disaster

Passengers of a ferry that sank off Northern Cyprus demanded that the ship be turned around 20 minutes before the disaster. This was reported by the SHOT Telegram channel.

According to the channel, passengers became frightened when, due to strong waves, water began to enter the ship, but the captain ignored the warning and refused to turn the ship around. Only after the ferry received a strong blow to the bow did the captain try to turn, but by this time the windows had already been broken and even more water was pouring inside.

“Whoever was able to get out, got out. And those who couldn’t, stayed inside,” the publication quotes the surviving passenger as saying. Currently, six people are known to have died, and another 70 are still missing. In total, there were 279 people on board the ferry at the time of the emergency.