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Iain Stuart Yardley
Member
Username: boz
Post Number: 510
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 10:46 am: | 
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This time 55 people are missing after a 63-ton ferry, the Piary, sank when heavy seas punched a hole in it's side 60 miles from it's destination of Brookes Point on Palawan Island. Of the 68 passengers and 7 crew on board, 20 survivors were picked up by a Panamanian-registered cargo ship.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3342557.stm
This figure adds to the hundreds already dead in mudslides across the Phillipines.
Cheers,
Boz |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 7498
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:47 am: |
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All too typical for the area I'm afraid. I wouldn't get on a ferry in that part of the world for all the gold in Fort Knox!
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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