Over 100 injured after ferry apparently collides with whale

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - More than 100 people were injured when the hydrofoil Toppy-4 ferry, now moored at port in Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, collided with a submerged object, possibly a whale, in the East China Sea off the prefecture on April 9, the ferry's operator said April 10.

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