2 dead, 4 missing as Ro-Ro ferry sinks
Poor lashing of a bus onboard may have caused a ferry to tilt off balance and sink off Burias Island in Masbate province early Friday, killing two people and leaving four others missing.
Poor lashing of a bus onboard may have caused a ferry to tilt off balance and sink off Burias Island in Masbate province early Friday, killing two people and leaving four others missing.
A Cebuano shipping executive of Sulpicio Lines Inc. was cleared of criminal liability by the Court of Appeals in relation to the 2008 sinking of MV Princess of the Stars.
A crew member died while 14 others were declared missing when a foreign vessel sank in the West Philippine Sea off Bolinao, Pangasinan, on Saturday night, reports from the Philippine Coast Guard said Sunday.
The militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said that the incident at Tubbataha involving the Guardian raised more questions against the unhampered entry and permanent presence of US forces in the country under the VFA.
Nearly two days after their motor boat capsized while they were island-hopping in Marinduque, two German tourists and their Australian companion were rescued on Thursday by a passing cargo vessel off the coast of Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.
Three bodies and a partially capsized wooden boat were found drifting off central Japan Sunday, the coastguard said, as a report suggested the boat originated in Korea.
Four crew members died and seven were missing in the icy waters of the North Sea, after a cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank off the Dutch coast Wednesday night, rescuers said.
Three fishermen aboard an outrigger boat which capsized were rescued by the Philippine Coast Guard off Mamburao in Occidental Mindoro Thursday.
Three persons are dead while two others are missing when a boat carrying mostly students bound for a Math contest sank in Kabacan, North Cotabato, on Wednesday, according to authorities yesterday.
A 20-year-old crew member of a Philippine-registered cargo ship was reported missing after he fell overboard on Monday while trying to catch a fellow sailor’s pet dove that had escaped from its cage while the ship was sailing off the Guimaras coast, according to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG).
Philippine Coast Guard personnel have rescued four fishermen whose motor boat capsized Wednesday off El Nido, Palawan, due to rough seas churned by Typhoon “Gener.”
Road Mishap A mother was injured while her 3-month-old son was killed when a van side-swiped them on a a roadside in barangay Kawit, Medellin, north Cebu, on Sunday. Daria Tumakay is in critical condition in a Cebu City hospital. Her baby Jhon Niño died of severe head injuries. Police said the van driver, barangay [...]
Salvage work to remove the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship from its rocky perch off Tuscany, where 32 people died, will begin early next month and is expected to take a year, the Italian owner announced Saturday.
