26 REPORTED DEAD IN FERRY DISASTER

  At least 26 people died when
  a car ferry struck a pier as it left Belgium for Britain, a
  nurse who took part in the rescue operation said.
      Jan Van Moerbeke, a male nurse, said on coming off the
  Herald of Free Enterprise that he had found six people on top
  of the vessel who were dead. There were at least another 20
  dead inside the boat, he added.
      The governor of West Flanders province said 240 people were
  still unaccounted for.
  

