At least five people were dead and 30 were reported missing on Thursday after a ferry sank on its way to the resort island of Bali, according to local authorities who said 23 survivors had been plucked from the water so far.

Rescuers were still racing to find missing people after the vessel carrying 65 passengers sank before midnight on Wednesday as it sailed to the popular holiday destination from Indonesia’s main island Java.

“23 rescued, 4 dead,” Rama Samtama Putra, police chief of Banyuwangi in East Java, where the boat departed, told AFP.

President Prabowo Subianto, who was on a trip to Saudi Arabia, ordered an immediate emergency response, cabinet secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya said in a statement Thursday, adding the cause of the accident was “bad weather”.

The local rescue agency in the Javan city Surabaya had earlier said 61 were missing and four rescued, without giving a cause for the boat’s sinking.

“KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya … sank about 25 minutes after weighing anchor,” the Surabaya search and rescue agency said.

“The ferry’s manifest data totalled 53 passengers and 12 passenger crews,” it said.

A rescue team and inflatable rescue boats were dispatched and a bigger vessel was later sent from Surabaya to assist the search efforts.

Four of the known survivors saved themselves by using the ferry’s lifeboat and were found in the water early Thursday, the agency said.

It said the ferry was also transporting 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.

Indonesia suspends search for 30 missing after ferry sinks near Bali

Indonesian rescuers on Thursday temporarily halted a search for 30 people still missing after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near the island of Bali with the loss of six lives, the national search and rescue agency said.

The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving East Java province’s Banyuwangi port on its way to Bali late on Wednesday, the agency said.

The rescuers called off the search on Thursday evening due to a “visibility problem”, Nanang Sigit, the head of East Java rescue agency told Reuters, adding that 29 people had been rescued so far.

He said the operation would resume on Friday morning, with more than 160 rescuers including police and military personnel deployed to conduct the search backed by four vessels and several helicopters.

The boat was carrying 53 passengers and 12 crew members, as well as 22 vehicles, the national agency said.

The ship was rated to carry 67 people and 25 vehicles, according to Indonesia’s transport ministry.