A man watches as people disembark from a scheduled island ferry at Jindo harbor where relatives of victims of the Sewol ferry are gathered at a makeshift relief center, on Monday. Divers were battling atrocious weather conditions and powerful swell in their grim search for corpses believed trapped in the sunken South Korean ferry, a coastguard spokesman said. AFP PHOTO
A man watches as people disembark from a scheduled island ferry at Jindo harbor where relatives of victims of the Sewol ferry are gathered at a makeshift relief center, on Monday. Divers were battling atrocious weather conditions and powerful swell in their grim search for corpses believed trapped in the sunken South Korean ferry, a coastguard spokesman said. AFP PHOTO

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors on Monday carried out a series of raids, including on a coastguard office, as part of their widening investigation into a ferry disaster that left 300 dead or missing.

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