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Outside this hospital in Papua New Guinea families wait for news of those still missing after the sinking of a ferry.

Rescue teams said on Saturday they'd found four bodies and were looking for about 100 people still unaccounted for.

Inside the hospital grateful relatives crowded around the bedsides of surviving loved ones.

SOUNDBITE: Rebecca Kabrette, daughter of survivor, saying (English):

"When the ship capsized she just jumped, she jumped and she, she's okay but she just bumped her knee."

SOUNDBITE: McKenzie WariWari, brother of survivor, saying (English):

"Well I was relieved and I was excited. I just didn't know that she's alive, you know."

The MV Rabaul Queen went down on Thursday with about 350 on board.

The number of confirmed survivors was put at 246 on Saturday.

Rescuers are optimistic that more survivors will be found in the relatively warm sea but fears are growing that many of the missing are trapped inside the wreck.

Paul Chapman, Reuters
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