Fire on Philippine passenger ferry kills 28 people

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Fire on Philippine passenger ferry kills 28 people

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By Neil Jerome Morales
30th March, 2023


MANILA, March 30 (Reuters) - At least 28 people have died including a 6-month old baby after a fire broke out on an inter-island passenger ferry in the southern Philippine, the coast guard said on Thursday.

Authorities have yet to identify the cause of the fire that started close to 11 p.m. (1500 GMT) on Wednesday off the island of Basilan, when many of the passengers were asleep in air-conditioned cabins on the ferry's lower deck.

"Initially there were 10 we recovered, they died of drowning. And then we discovered another 18 on board the vessel, at the cabin. They were totally burnt," Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard chief in the southern Mindanao region, told Reuters.

There were conflicting figures on the number of passengers on the ferry, which was not overloaded, but the coast guard said 230 people including 35 crew were rescued.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 023-03-30/
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Death scene in burned Filipino ferry moves rescuers to tears
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In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), PCG personnel walk beside the MV Lady Mary Joy that caught fire in Basilan, southern Philippines early Thursday, March 30, 2023. More than a dozen people died while other were reported missing after an inter-island cargo and passenger ferry with about 200 passengers and crew onboard caught fire close to midnight in the southern Philippines, a provincial governor said Thursday. - AP

MANILA, April 1 (AP): A Philippine coast guard commander said on Friday night that the tragic scenes of death his team saw aboard a gutted ferry, including adults clutching children, had moved them to tears and sparked fears other passengers could be found dead in the still-smoldering ship.

At least 29 of more than 250 people onboard the M/V Lady Mary Joy 3 were killed in the blaze that raged through the ferry Wednesday night while it was on an overnight trip from the southern port city of Zamboanga to Jolo town in Sulu province.

At least seven passengers, including two army soldiers, remained missing in the country's deadliest sea disaster this year, the coast guard said.

All 35 crew members survived, including the captain, who issued an abandon-ship order when the fire hit close to midnight, then ran the ferry aground on an island off Basilan province to give remaining passengers a better chance to survive, coast guard officials said.

Many passengers jumped into the sea in panic without life jackets and were saved by rescuers but at least 11 drowned.
The passengers, including an adult clutching a child by the railing, could have easily jumped into the sea and survived like many others but failed to do so for unclear reasons.
In full: https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/as ... s-to-tears
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