South Korea has said that it is ready to lift a ferry that sank in April 2014 with the loss of more than 300 people, mostly school children.

The 6,825-ton Sewol (built 1994) sank off the country’s west coast while en route to the southern resort island of Jeju.

“We will make full efforts to hoist the ship and land it at a port in Mokpo before the third anniversary,” Yoon Hag-bae, vice minister of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries is quoted as saying by the Yonhap news wire.

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