Rescue team members search for passengers aboard a ferry sinking off of South Korea's southern coast, in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, on April 17, 2014. Photograph: Yonhap via AP Photo
Relatives weep as they wait for news of missing passengers from the sunken South Korean ferry. Source: Getty Images
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South Korean Coast Guard and rescue teams search for missing passengers at the site of the sunken ferry, Sewol, off the coast of Jindo Island on April 17.
The vice principal of a high school whose pupils died or are missing in a South Korean ferry accident has committed suicide by hanging himself outside a large gym where families of the victims were staying.
Police said that Kang Min-gyu, 52, had been missing since Thursday and appeared to have hung himself with his belt from a tree outside the gym.
Out of 475 passengers and crew on the ship, about 340 were students and teachers from the Danwon High School in Ansan, an industrial town near Seoul, who were on an outing to the resort island of Jeju.
They account for about 250 of those missing.
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