According to a rescue operation official, at least nine bodies have been discovered after a ferry sank off the coast of an Indonesian island due to the storm.

On Monday evening, the KM Cahaya Arafah sunk in the waters off Indonesia’s Ternate island, triggering a rescue operation action for 13 missing persons. The Ternate search and rescue agency reported that rescuers discovered four bodies on Wednesday evening as well as five bodies on the fourth day of the discovery.

Four people are still unaccounted for,  The vessel was transporting 77 passengers and crew to nearby Halmahera Island.

Following the sinking, 64 people were evacuated to a nearby village. Local villagers had sailed out in longboats to assist authorities on a vessel with the search.

Marine accidents are common in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of approximately 17,000 islands where people rely on ferries and small boats to get around despite inadequate safety standards.

A ferry carrying over 800 people came ashore in shallow waters off the coast of East Nusa Tenggara province in May and stayed stuck for two days before being freed. Nobody was involved in the incident. Or more than 150 people died in 2018 when a ferry capsized in one of the world’s deepest lakes on Sumatra Island.