{"id":54762,"date":"2026-09-10T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=54762"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:29:20","slug":"five-dead-more-than-80-missing-after-philippine-ferry-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/five-dead-more-than-80-missing-after-philippine-ferry-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead, more than 80 missing after Philippine ferry fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters :\u00a0 Five \u200cpeople died and more than 80 are missing after a ferry caught fire off Palawan \u200bisland in the western Philippines \u200bon Wednesday night, the Philippine Coast Guard said \u2060on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three people were rescued on \u200bWednesday night after the fire broke out \u200baboard the MV June Aster in waters off Coron, Palawan, the PCG said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage released by the \u200bCoast Guard showed flames engulfing parts \u200bof the vessel and responders placing bodies in \u200cbody \u2060bags.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard spokesperson Commodore Noemie Cayabyab told DZXL radio that the vessel&#8217;s manifest listed 117 passengers and 17 crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Based \u200bon the \u200breported number \u2060of survivors and fatalities, more than 80 people were unaccounted \u200bfor, and Cayabyab said the \u200bfigures \u2060may change as the rescue operation continues.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry had departed from Baseco in Manila \u2060and \u200bwas bound for Coron, \u200bshe said. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Reporting \u200bby Karen Lema; Editing by John Mair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters :\u00a0 Five \u200cpeople died and more than 80 are missing after a ferry caught fire off Palawan \u200bisland in the western Philippines \u200bon Wednesday night, the Philippine Coast Guard said \u2060on Thursday. Forty-three people were rescued on \u200bWednesday night after the fire broke out \u200baboard the MV June Aster in waters off Coron, Palawan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54765,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54762\/revisions\/54765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}