The number of fatalities from the collision of a passenger vessel and a cargo ship in Cebu last Aug. 16 further rose to 94 as of Thursday morning, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said.
n a post on its Twitter account Thursday noon, the Coast Guard said this brought down to 40 the number of people deemed missing.
As of 9:45 a.m., the Coast Guard said 733 had been rescued while 94 were confirmed dead, while 40 are missing and the subject of search operations.
Among those found dead on Thursday were two kids and an adult, Naval Forces Central operations officer Lt. Cmdr. Noel Escalona told reporters on Thursday.
The dead bodies were found in the sunken ship’s passenger section, Escalona added.
Coast Guard spokesman Cmdr. Armand Balilo said search-and-rescue operations by divers from the PCG, the Navy and the Philippine National Police, as well as volunteer divers, were continuing.
“The diving operations continue today,” said Balilo, chief of the Coast Guard’s public affairs office.
Earlier, he said the divers had already covered up to 60 percent of the vessel and were scheduled to look into the ship’s tourist cabins.
According to the PCG official, “three more bodies were recovered this morning, in addition to the 11 found on Wednesday.”
As of 11:58 a.m. Thursday, the number of missing ferry passengers and crew members stood at 40. The command placed the number of rescued passengers and crew at 639 and 104, respectively.
The Coast Guard station in Cebu has been making “revisions on the number of casualties based on body parts recovered, as well as validations by 2Go Travel, the Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and representatives of the Department of Health, Balilo added.
The shipping company 2Go Travel operated the St. Thomas Aquinas.
Thursday 29 August 2013
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