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According to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), 261 passengers remain stranded in various ports all over the country, together with 37 ships, 47 motor boats and 17 rolling cargos. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/vF4Vy8KgpPU
MANILA, July 16 (PNA) — In its 8 p.m. update, the Philippine Coast Guard announced that the number of seagoing passengers stranded by inclement weather caused by Typhoon “Glenda” has been placed at 4,937. It also added that 406 rolling cargoes, 33 vessels, and 20 bancas are still prevented from leaving ports in Southern Tagalog and the Visayas.
A video footage showing the final minutes of ferry passengers before the South Korean ship sunk was released.
A prosecutor investigating the South Korean ferry disaster has said the captain was not at the helm at the time of the accident. The report will fuel growing anger among relatives as the death toll rises further. In a press conference detailing the preliminary findings of the investigation, prosecutor Park Jae-eok revealed that the ferry’s third officer had been in command when the vessel capsized. “The captain was not in command when the accident took […]
(Reuters) — Residents of Malaysia’s capital woke up to the news that search for MH370 resumed in the southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday (March 26) as they mourned the death of the passengers who were on the flight bound for Beijing. On Monday (March 24) Malaysia said new satellite data suggested the Boeing 777 had crashed, and now an international search effort is looking for physical evidence of the plane. Officials say all 239 people on board likely died. Local newspapers paid tribute […]
Vietnamese rescue planes have spotted two oil slicks in the area where a Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 239 people disappeared over the South China Sea. The jet was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The oil slicks were spotted late on Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam by air force planes dispatched to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight. “Two of our aircraft sighted two oil slicks around 15 to […]
Search and rescue operations are underway after a Malaysian jet carrying 239 people disappeared over the South China Sea. The plane, headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, was last detected northeast of Malaysia. Chinese state television said two rescue ships had been dispatched to the South China Sea to help in search and rescue efforts for the missing aircraft. Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam are also taking part in the search for the plane by […]
(Reuters) – A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, prompting China to send ships to scour the water for possible wreckage. The airline, speaking several hours after the plane had been due to land in the Chinese capital, said it was still too early to say whether the aircraft had crashed. It said there had been no distress […]
