South Korea leader visits kin of ferry missing

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye told families of those missing in a sunken ferry that her heart breaks knowing what they are going through, as divers recovered two more bodies on Sunday.

Park met with some 50 relatives in Paengmok port on Jindo, an island near where the ferry sank April 16 with 476 people aboard, most of them students from a single high school. The death toll reached 244 with 58 still missing while 174 survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members.

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