意大利載400餘人渡輪希臘海域失火

(Reuters) - An international rescue effort was under way in high winds after a car ferry carrying 466 passengers and crew caught fire while sailing from Greece to Italy and its captain ordered its evacuation, officials said on Sunday.

（路透社）——官方在週日稱，一艘載有466名乘客和工作人員的汽車渡輪在從希臘出發到意大利的途中因急風起火，船長下令緊急疏散，國際救援正在緊張展開中。

Passengers who telephoned Greek television stations gave dramatic testimony of conditions on the ship, which caught fire just before 6.00 a.m. local time (11.00 p.m. EST) while traveling from Patras in western Greece to the eastern Italian city of Ancona.

當地時間就在早上6點前（東時區晚上11點），從希臘西邊的佩特雷開往意大利東部城市安科納的渡輪上，致電希臘電視臺的乘客發回了船上揪人心絃的實況轉述。

"They tried to lower some boats, but not all of us could get in. There is no coordination," one said. "It's dark, the bottom of the vessel is on fire. We are on the bridge, we can see a boat approaching... we opened some boxes and got some life vests, we are trying to save ourselves."

“他們試圖放一些船下去，但是不是我們所有人都能乘上去。沒人來協調，”一名乘客說道。“天很黑，船底部失火了。我們都在夾板上，我們能看到一隻船向我們靠近……我們打開一些箱子找到了一些救生衣，我們試圖自救。”

It was unclear whether there had been any casualties or whether any passengers were in the water, where cold winter temperatures would make survival difficult unless rescue came quickly.

船上是否有人員傷亡尚且未知，也不知是否有乘客落水，而寒冷的氣溫會讓救援難度增加，除非救援能儘快到達。

"The ship is already being evacuated," an official told Reuters, adding that 130 people had been transferred from a rescue boat to a container ship that had been nearby when the fire broke out.

“船隻已經被疏散了，”一名官方人員告訴路透社，並補充道在起火時，已有130人從救生船上被轉移到附近的運貨船上。

Officials said both Italian and Albanian authorities were taking part in the operation, which was being conducted in difficult conditions with strong winds.

官方稱，強風的惡劣天氣下，意大利和阿爾巴尼亞當局都參與了救援。