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FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The death toll from the capsizing of the ferry M/V Trisha Kerstin 3 in the southern Philippines has risen to 29 after 11 additional bodies were recovered from coastal waters on 29 January according to the Philippine Coast Guard. The ferry, which was carrying more than 350 passengers, sank in the early hours of 26 January near an island off southwestern Mindanao, throwing hundreds of people into the sea. In the days following the incident, authorities deployed divers to assist in ongoing search and rescue operations for passengers still reported missing. RelatedNews Fire aboard berthed ferry injures crew member One dead and four reportedly missing following U.S. strike on Iranian vessel var jnews_module_21364074_0_6a01f842bdcd4 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21364074","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"157,1748,220","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads
Death toll from ferry tragedy in the Philippines rises to 29
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