'It felt like floors were boiling': Passengers wait in hail and gales for ferry rescue

Hundreds of passengers and crew braved cold temperatures and gale-force winds as they waited for nearly a day to be evacuated from a burning ferry adrift in rough seas between Italy and Albania.

'It felt like floors were boiling': Passengers wait in hail and gales for ferry rescue

Hundreds of passengers and crew braved cold temperatures and gale-force winds as they waited for nearly a day to be evacuated from a burning ferry adrift in rough seas between Italy and Albania.

At least one person died and two were injured in the risky rescue operation.

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