Nocere – Earth Disasters

Deep-sea divers sought Saturday for a sunken ferry and 24 missing persons after it collided with another vessel and went down on Christmas Eve.

Search-and-rescue groups, supported by six government boats and three airplane, have combed a 20-nautical-mile (37-kilometer) radius of Manila Bay since Thursday, but the ferry has yet to be established, the head of the Philippine seaboard area guard said.

Three bodies and 46 survivors were retrieved hours after MV Catalyn B, a wooden-hulled ferry with 73 persons on board, collided with the 369-ton angling vessel Anathalia before dawn Thursday beside the mouth of Manila Bay. No added bodies have been discovered since.

Coast guard agents state numerous passengers were sleeping and had no time to get life vests on and numerous of the missing may have been tricked inside.

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Bangladesh – Bangladesh rescue team looking for more bodies on Sunday after righting an overloaded ferry that capsized in a mishap that asserted at least 37 lives. Local police confided that 21 victims were recovered from the lower deck and cottages  that had been locked as shortly as the crowded MV Coco-4 ferry overturned late on Friday. The triple-decked ferry, which had a  volume  of 665, was crammed with more than 1,000 passengers and originated  taking in water as shortly as it came into dock. Most passengers handled to swim aground or were rescued via divers who prized frank several cottages of the submerged vessel. The mishap happened on Friday circle midnight as the MV Coco-4, one of the country’s  highest inland boats, was  coming the port on Bhola island.

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