MV St. Thomas Aquinas crash in Philippines
The number of fatalities from last week’s collision between a passenger ship and cargo vessel in Cebu rose to 75 as of August 22, the Philippine Coast Guard said.MV Thomas Aquinas sank after a collision with a cargo ship Sulpicio Express 7 near the central city of Cebu – around 2km (1.2 miles) from the shore. Among casualties, there are71 passengers and 4 crew.
The Coast Guard indicated four more bodies had been recovered, even as 750 passengers from the MV Saint Thomas Aquinas 1 had already been rescued.
The Coast Guard continued searching for possible survivors or bodies of fatalities from the MV St. Thomas Aquinas 1, which sank after colliding with the MV Sulpicio Express 7. In total 45 are still missing.
The vessels collision resulted in an oil spill that affected Cordova town, even as the provincial government declared a state of calamity over the entire Cebu.
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