FERRY SINKS
70 feared drowned
ie n c | (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) .s MANILA, June 28. hi At least 20 persons are dead, and Coast Guard frogr. men are struggling today to free 50 more bodies believed eto be trapped below the e ; decks of a 700-ton Second ”iWorld War vintage interisland ferry which has been (wrecked near Cebu, carrying ■- about 400 passengers and l * I crew. “ The M.V. Butuan struck an object, probably a coral reef, h and sank in 30 feet of water n near Bagacay Point, about 12 r miles south of Cebu, the 1 Philippines second-largest - city about 350 miles south of Manila.
r According to the Coast -Guard, many passengers . were trapped below decks be- .! cause they were sleeping s when the vessel came to .grief. q One passenger. Mr Anat cleto Paredes, aged 49, a r fanner, said that he heard a - crash, and the ship’s power » failed. The vessel then listed i and sea water poured in at sjneck level. -; Mr Paredes said that he :. clung to a mast until he was z rescued, with about 70 others, 1 by the M.V. Cube Pikit. His . wife was saved, but his two t;children, aged eight and six,; were missing.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33264, 29 June 1973, Page 9
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