Five people rescued after three months drifting on the Pacific Ocean

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A high vantage point of the Fanning Island (Tabuaeran) atoll. The image shows the closest beach of the atoll, and the distant other side. Tropic flue waters are rich in colour.
Fanning Island is a remote coral atoll in the central Pacific (Picture: Getty Images)

Five people, including two children, have been rescued after spending three months adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

A group of nine people originally set off on July 30 for what should have been a routine one-hour boat journey between the islands of Murilo and Ruo in Indonesia.

However, after their vessel was caught in a storm, they were blown far off course.

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