South Korean divers have discovered another body inside the sunken Sewol ferry six months after it capsized.
The discovery came more than 100 days after the last body was recovered.
The body was found inside a women's bathroom in the upturned ferry, which sank on 16 April with the loss of more than 300 lives.
Most of those who died were students from the same secondary school.
"An operation is now under way to retrieve the body from the ship," said an official involved in the recovery operation on the southern island of Jindo.
The last body to be pulled from the upturned ship was on 18 July.
Since then, divers have continued to search the ferry on a near-daily basis as victims' relatives refuse to approve the raising of the Sewol before all the dead are accounted for.
The discovery means there are now only nine victims of the disaster still missing.
Of the 476 people on board the 6,825-tonne Sewol when it capsized, 325 were high school students on an organised outing. Only 75 students survived.
Relatives of those still unaccounted for have remained in Jindo for the past six months, despite warnings that their loved ones may have been washed out to sea.
The South Korean government has vowed not to bring in the heavy lifting cranes without the agreement of the victims' families, but the recovery teams have warned that time is running out for the divers as winter approaches.
The relatives still in Jindo yesterday voted for the first time on whether to allow the cranes in, with the decision going 5-4 against the idea.
