SEOUL: More than 70 student survivors of South Korea’s ferry disaster made an emotional return on Wednesday to their high school, watched by the relatives of the hundreds who died.

More than two months after the Sewol passenger ferry capsized and sank with the loss of around 300 lives, the 74 pupils who escaped walked hand in hand as they made their way back to class for the first time.

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