UPDATE: Search and rescue workers found 13 more bodies in an ill-fated passenger ferry which caught fire in the waters off Baluk-Baluk Island, Hadji Mutamad in Basilan, bringing the number of lives lost in the tragedy to nearly two dozen.
BASILAN, Philippines – Search and rescue workers found 13 more bodies in an ill-fated passenger ferry which caught fire past 11 pm on Wednesday, March 29, in the waters off Baluk-Baluk Island, Hadji Mutamad in Basilan, bringing the number of lives lost in the tragedy to nearly two dozen.
Nine people were injured in the fire that started in air-conditioned cabins, Commodore Rejard Marfe, Coast Guard chief in southern Mindanao, told DZMM. Earlier, the PDRRMO said the ferry, an interisland vessel of Aleson Shipping Lines, was bound for Jolo, Sulu from Zamboanga City with 230 passengers. The ferry has a capacity to carry up to 430 people.
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