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Iain Stuart Yardley
Member
Username: boz
Post Number: 564
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 7:02 pm: | 
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Rescue boats are on the way to the scene of a fire aboard a passenger ship off Corregidor Island, near Manila, Phillipines. The Superferry 14 is reported to be carrying 690 adult pasengers and 27 children.
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Andrew Johnston
Member
Username: akita
Post Number: 45
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 11:58 pm: |
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thanx for the notification.... this ferry thing is getting out of hand...
keep us posted, anyone who bears info.
"Oceanos' Sinking" fan!
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Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 8089
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 5:03 am: |
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Another ferry biting the dust??? Jeeze...makes me gald I don't live over there where this is practically the only reasonably inexpensive way to get around.
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Iain Stuart Yardley
Member
Username: boz
Post Number: 566
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 9:22 am: |
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Latest news is 1 confirmed fatality with 153 missing. There were 877 passengers and crew on board, many of whom were forced to jump into the sea to escape the flames.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3491206.stm
Incidentally, there is a link on the right of the page to other shipping disasters.
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Iain Stuart Yardley
Member
Username: boz
Post Number: 569
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 3:39 pm: |
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The Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf (linked to al-Qaeda) have claimed responsibility for the engine room explosion which caused the fire, although rescue/salvage workers have reported seeing no damage consistent with a bomb explosion. Of the now-known 899 people aboard, around 180 are still missing.
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