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KENDARI, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed and 19 more were missing on Monday after a wooden boat sank off the coast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, search and rescue officials said. The boat sank with 40 people onboard just after midnight local time (1700 GMT on Sunday), the local office of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said in a statement. Six people were rescued and taken to hospital for treatment, it said, […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — At least 12 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said Thursday. The Lady Mary Joy 3 was travelling from Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island to Jolo Island in Sulu province when the fire broke out late Wednesday, prompting passengers to jump overboard, disaster officer Nixon Alonzo said. Rescuers, including the Philippine Coast Guard and fishermen, saved 195 passengers and 35 […]
LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AFP) — The toll from this month’s ferry disaster off the coast of Gabon has risen to 26 dead after two more bodies were recovered on Monday, the public prosecutors office said. The toll update came 11 days after the ferry, carrying 161 passengers and crew from the capital Libreville to the oil town of Port-Gentil, went down at night ten kilometres (six miles) from shore. Eleven passengers remain missing, the prosecutor said. […]
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP) A fire that broke out on a car ferry carrying 300 people off Sweden’s coast on Monday has been extinguished and the ship will be towed to port, Swedish maritime authorities said. The blaze appeared to have started on a refrigeration lorry on the car deck of the Stena Scandica, which was sailing from Sweden to Latvia. “The fire is out,” Swedish Maritime Administration spokeswoman Lisa Mjorning told AFP. “The ferry […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has rescued the 47 passengers and 38 crew members of the MV Asia Philippines which caught fire in waters off Batangas Friday evening, August 26. The PCG said at around noon of Saturday, August 27, that all the passengers and crew of the ship have already been accounted for. Before this, the PCG was still looking for two reported missing persons. But it also raised the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — At least one person was killed after a fire engulfed a Philippine ferry on Sunday, authorities said, forcing scores of people on board to jump into the sea. Rescuers plucked 163 passengers and crew from the waters off the central island of Bohol, the Philippine Coast Guard said, as they searched for one missing passenger. The “Mama Mary Chloe” vessel, which had a 236-person capacity, was carrying 157 passengers, including […]
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 […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) – Bangladesh police on Monday arrested the owner of an overcrowded ferry that caught fire and killed at least 39 people last week, after investigators blamed the toll on a disregard for safety. The blaze broke out in the middle of the night on Friday when many of the ferry’s 700 passengers were sleeping near the southern district of Barguna. Survivors relayed harrowing stories of having to jump into the Sugandha river from […]
by Shafiqul ALAM Agence France Presse DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 37 people died when an overcrowded night ferry caught fire in Bangladesh on Friday, police said, as terrified passengers leaped overboard to escape the blaze. The latest maritime tragedy to hit the impoverished low-lying nation happened in the early hours in a river near Jhalokathi, 250 kilometres (160 miles) south of Dhaka. “We have recovered 37 bodies. The death toll may rise. […]
TERNATE, Indonesia (AFP) — Search teams are looking for one missing person after rescuing all other passengers from a large ferry that caught fire in Indonesia, an official said Sunday. The KM Karya Indah was heading to Sanana, a remote port in the northeast of the Indonesian archipelago when it was engulfed in flames. Shortly after departing, the ferry caught fire, forcing passengers and crew to jump into the sea to save themselves. […]
(Eagle News) —Passengers can now travel from Cavite to Metro Manila and vice versa via ferry starting Monday, December 9. This is after the Department of Transportation through the Maritime Industry Authority launched the Cavite-Metro Manila Ferry Service on Sunday, Dec. 8, in a bid to ease congestion in Metro Manila through water transport. Under the Okey Ka Ferry Ko program, passengers can now take that form of water transport from Cavite City Port Terminal […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine authorities rescued dozens of people on Thursday after a ferry sank in rough seas, but search teams were still working to confirm all aboard were accounted for, the coast guard said. Rescuers plucked 59 people from waters off the central island of Cebu, while another three swam to shore after the vessel took on water and capsized. The manifest showed 60 crew and passengers aboard, the coast guard said, […]
