South Korean navy personnel on boats search passengers of the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 19, 2014. The captain of the sunken South Korean ferry was arrested Saturday on s
South Korean coast guard officials say they've found three more bodies from the sinking of a ferry, raising the death toll to 32.
Coast guard spokesman Kim Jae-in says the latest bodies were recovered Saturday, three days after the ferry sank.
The updated death toll follows the
arrest Saturday of the
captain of the ferry on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need. More than 300 are missing or dead.
Officials say strong currents and rain have made it difficult to get inside the ferry, where most of the
passengers are believed to have been trapped.
Prosecutors say the ferry's captain, 68-year-old Lee Joon-seok, was arrested along with the
third mate, a 25-year-old woman identified only by her surname, Park, and 55-year-old helmsman Cho Joon-ki.