Messages to ferry disaster victim

– The last messages to a victim of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster were revealed yesterday after their cellphone was recovered from the salvaged wreck, officials said.

The vessel took hours to sink off the country’s southwest coast in April 2014, killing more than 300 people.

“Please make sure you keep in touch with me,” read one message on the recovered device, according to investigators. “Coast guards just sent a patrol boat. Don’t die. Stay alive.”

Another asked: “Helicopter rescued you?” – AFP