Kepala Sekolah Bunuh Diri, Tertekan Tragedi Feri Tenggelam di Korsel
School Vice Principal Hangs Himself After Surviving South Korean Ferry Disaster
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Seoul (B2B) - Wakil Kepala Sekolah sebuah SMA di Korea Selatan yang mendampingi ratusan siswa dalam karya wisata menggunakan feri yang lalu tenggelam, diketahui meninggal dunia setelah melakukan bunuh diri.
Kang Min-gyu (52) menghilang sejak Kamis lalu. Dia didapati gantung diri dengan menggunakan ikat pinggangnya pada sebuah pohon di luar gimnasium di kota Jindo di mana sanak keluarga korban feri tenggelam yang kebanyakan anak sekolah itu berkumpul.
Polisi mengatakan Kang tidak meninggalkan catatan bunuh diri, namun polisi sebelumnya mencari dia karena dia dilaporkan menghilang oleh rekan sesama guru. Dia ditolong dari feri yang tenggelam Rabu lalu, seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
Dari 476 penumpang dan awak feri tersebut, 28 orang resmi dinyatakan meninggal dunia sebelum Kang bunuh diri dan 179 diselamatkan.
Para penyelam berjuang melawan gelombang tinggi dan ganas untuk mencapai feri tenggelam itu, namun sudah tipis kemungkinan menemukan korban hilang lainnya.
Seoul - The vice-principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of pupils on a ferry that capsized has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 274 missing alive.
Kang Min-gyu, 52, had been missing since Thursday. He appeared to have hanged himself with his belt from a tree outside a gym in the port city of Jindo where relatives of the people missing on the ship, mostly children from the school, were gathered.
Police said Kang did not leave a suicide note and that they had started looking for him after he was reported missing by a fellow teacher. He was rescued from the ferry after it capsized.
The Sewol, carrying 476 passengers and crew, capsized on Wednesday on a journey from the port of Incheon to the southern holiday island of Jeju.
Twenty-eight people had been officially declared dead before Kang´s suicide. One hundred and seventy-four were rescued. Most of the missing are students from the Danwon High School on the outskirts of Seoul, who were on a holiday trip.
Divers are fighting strong tides and murky waters to get to the sunken ship. The likelihood of finding any of the missing alive is slim.
