SEOUL: First bodies were found Saturday morning within the passenger cabins of a South Korean ferry, which sank off the country's southwestern coast on Wednesday, local broadcasters YTN and SBS reported.

Coast guard, navy and private divers have tried overnight to make their way into passenger compartments on the third and fourth floors of the five-story vessel where possible survivors were believed to have been trapped.

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