マニラ, フィリピンSeven people have died after a high-speed Philippine ferry carrying 134 月曜日に人々が火事になりました, 7人の乗客がまだ行方不明, 沿岸警備隊は言った.
MVマークラフト 2 caught fire just before reaching the port of Real in Quezon province, 約 60 キロメートル (37 マイル) east of the capital Manila.
It had left Polilio Island at 5 午前. local time and made a distress call at 6:30 午前.
Five women and two men had died, 一方 120 passengers had been rescued, と 23 of them treated for injuries, the coast guard said in a statement.
Pictures shared by the coast guard showed people in life vests floating at sea awaiting rescue, while some were taken to safety by a cargo ship in the area.
Fire and thick smoke engulfed the two-floor passenger vessel.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, but the Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands, があります poor record for maritime safety.
Vessels are often old and overcrowded.
に 1987, 周り 5,000 people died in the world’s worst peacetime shipping disaster, when the overloaded passenger ferry Dona Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro island south of the capital, マニラ.
