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A ferry sinks in the Java Sea, resulting in at least six deaths and more than a hundred others missing.

A ferry sinks in the Java Sea, resulting in at least six deaths and more than a hundred others missing. This podcast is based on excerpts from articles and the In The News section of Wikipedia, using the CC BY-SA 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The script is converted to audio by Google's text-to-speech service, but Wikipedia relies on human volunteers, and the code for extracting excerpts is written by hand. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sinking_of_the_Virgo_Transport_8&oldid=1375533262…

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