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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The number of people killed when an overloaded passenger boat capsized in a Philippine lake has risen to 26, the coast guard said Friday, as the search resumed for those still missing. The wooden outrigger was carrying about 70 people on its regular run from a port in Binangonan municipality to the island of Talim in Laguna lake, near Manila, on Thursday when the accident happened. Strong winds sparked panic among […]
MALAPPURAM, India (AFP) — At least 22 people died when a double-decker tourist boat capsized in India’s southern state of Kerala, officials said Monday. The incident happened late Sunday in Tanur, a coastal town in Kerala’s Malappuram district. Rescue operations were ongoing. Dozens of people searched for survivors in and around the stricken vessel during the night, which was partially submerged. Some used ropes to stabilize the vessel while others were in the water, looking […]
Boda, Bangladesh (AFP) Rescuers and navy divers recovered 10 bodies Tuesday after a boat overloaded with religious pilgrims capsized in Bangladesh, police said, taking the death toll to 61 as anxious relatives waited for news of several people who were still missing. The incident on Sunday near the northern town of Boda was the deadliest in years in the South Asian country, which is crisscrossed by rivers where overcrowding on aged vessels is common. Seventeen […]
by Suy SE Agence France Presse PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing at sea after a boat capsized off the coast of Cambodia, an official said Friday. The boat carrying 41 Chinese people got into difficulties off Sihanoukville on Thursday, Preah Sihanouk provincial spokesman Kheang Phearom told AFP, and only 18 of those on board had been rescued. The once-quiet fishing village of Sihanoukville has been transformed by a […]
Fifty-nine Rohingya people have been discovered on a Thai island, saying they were abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia, a senior police officer said Sunday. The group — among them five children — were found on Koh Dong island in the southern Satun province on Saturday, said lieutenant general Surachet Hakpan. Each year, thousands of the mostly Muslim minority Rohingya people, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives in months-long expensive journeys to […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Thirty-one people have been rescued and 11 are still missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia, an official said Monday. Local tugboats and fishermen brought many of the survivors ashore after the KM Ladang Pertiwi sank while sailing through the Makassar strait in South Sulawesi province on Thursday. “Until now 31 people have been rescued alive and we are […]
(Eagle News)–At least seven fishermen are missing after a fishing boat and a cargo vessel collided off Palawan, the Philippine Coast Guard said. According to the PCG, the fishermen were part of the 20 fishermen on board the Philippine-flagged FB Jot-18, which collided against MV Happy Hiro, a vessel sailing under the Marshall Islands flag, off Maracanao Island. The remaining 13 fishermen were rescued and transferred to MV Happy Hiro, which ferried them to waters […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — The death toll from a boat accident off Malaysia rose to 18 Thursday after a search and rescue team found the bodies of seven more Indonesian migrants on the shore. The vessel, which was carrying about 50 Indonesians seeking to enter neighbouring Malaysia illegally, capsized Wednesday in stormy weather off the southern state of Johor. Soldiers on patrol found 11 victims on the shore in the hours after the […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Seven Indonesians drowned after an overloaded boat capsized because of tourists attempting a selfie in a reservoir on Java island, police said Sunday. The accident happened when all 20 passengers suddenly moved to the one side of the vessel to take a group photo on Saturday in the Boyolali regency, said Central Java police chief Ahmad Lutfi. “The cause of the accident was overcapacity,” Lutfi told reporters. “The 20 people took […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 26 people were killed when a speedboat packed with passengers collided with a vessel transporting sand on Monday in the latest maritime disaster to hit Bangladesh. Police said the speedboat carrying about three dozen passengers from the town of Mawa rammed into the other vessel in the Padma river as it neared the main river station in the central rural town of Shibchar. “We have so far recovered 26 […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — An overcrowded smuggling boat capsized Sunday off the California coast after crashing into the shoreline, killing three people and leaving 27 people hospitalized with a range of injuries, authorities said. The accident happened Sunday morning off San Diego, with all aboard the 40-foot (12 meters) vessel jumping into the choppy water as it slowly disintegrated, witness video showed. “It was a smuggling vessel,” Jeffery Stephenson of the Customs […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Rescuers were searching for 17 missing fishermen after two boats collided in waters off Indonesia’s West Java province, officials said Sunday. A fishing ship hit a larger cargo vessel on Saturday evening off Indramayu regency, flipping the wooden boat’s 32 crew members into the water, said Bandung rescue agency spokeswoman Seni Wulandari. “Some 15 survivors have been evacuated to the cargo vessel but the team is still searching for 17 other […]
