Remains of South Korean Sewol ferry disaster victim found near where wreck was raised

South Korean salvage crews today found what are presumed to be the remains of one of the missing victims of a 2014 ferry disaster that killed 304 passengers.

The remains were found in the waters where the ship’s wreckage was raised last week, an official from the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said.

The ship was loaded on to a heavy lift transport vessel that will carry it to port.

Rescue workers had recovered 295 bodies before the government ended underwater searches in November 2014, seven months after the ship sank.

Nine of the ferry’s passengers, most of them students, had remained missing.

Earlier today relatives of the missing passengers participated in an emotional memorial service on a boat near the transport vessel holding the ferry.

Relatives threw into the sea yellow roses, a colour that has become the symbol of their suffering.