Disaster At Sea
(N.Z.P-A.-Reuter—Copyright) MANILA, Oct. 13. Six persons are known to have died and at least 200 are missing from an overcrowded, festival-bound ferry boat which sank in shark-infested waters off the Southern Philippines. A Philippines Navy spokesman says that about 200 persons were rescued, three of them seriously injured, from the inter-island boat Dumaguete J. Small motor launches picked up the survivors, who included the stricken vessel’s captain and first mate. Sea-and-air-rescue craft found the wreckage of the ferry about 10 miles northwest of Sacol Island. Most of the passengers were going from Cotabato to Zamboanga for the annual festival honouring the city’s patron saint.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31809, 14 October 1968, Page 17
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