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Updated Monday, July 20, 2009 10:15 am TWN, AP

N.Z. quits search for 18 lost from Kiribati ferry

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The New Zealand Air Force withdrew Sunday from a weeklong search for 18 people missing after a ferry capsized and sank near the Pacific nation of Kiribati, citing a lack of fuel, a news report said. A New Zealand plane has been assisting local authorities in the hunt for bodies and survivors since the boat went down last Monday while ferrying passengers from the main island of Tarawa to outlying Maiana island, Radio New Zealand reported. Twenty survivors have been retrieved and seven bodies were recovered, Neville Blakemore from New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre told the radio station.

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