(The Sun UK) It has been reported that when the fire broke out, many of the passengers were asleep in air-conditioned cabins on the ferry’s lower deck.
“The number of people killed in a fire that ripped through a ferry in the southern Philippines has risen to 31”, the local governor, Jim Hataman, said after more bodies were found inside the burned-out wreckage.
The MV Lady Mary Joy 3 was heading to the Sulu province from the southern port city of Zamboanga when it caught fire at around 11pm local time.
“Initially there were 10 we recovered, they died of drowning. And then we discovered another 18 on board the vessel, at the cabin. They were totally burnt,” Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard chief in the southern Mindanao region, told Reuters… Read More