{"id":543794,"date":"2026-01-26T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:39:11","slug":"ferry-carrying-over-350-people-sinks-in-philippines-killing-at-least-15-aviation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543794\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry carrying over 350 people sinks in Philippines, killing at least 15 | Aviation News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The coastguard says at least 316 people have been rescued so far, while 28 others remain missing.<\/p>\n

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A ferry carrying more than 350 people has capsized off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, killing at least 15 people, according to officials.<\/p>\n

The \u2060accident occurred after midnight on Monday \u200bas the passenger vessel, MV Trisha Kerstin \u200d3, was en route to Jolo Island in southern Sulu after departing the port city of Zamboanga.<\/p>\n

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The vessel, which \u200dhad 332 \u2060passengers on record and 27 crew, issued a distress signal at 1:50am on Monday (17:50 GMT Sunday), about four hours after it departed Zamboanga City, according to the Philippine coastguard.<\/p>\n

The ferry sank in good weather about 1 nautical mile (nearly 2km) from the island village of Baluk-baluk in Basilan province, where many of the survivors were initially taken, the coastguard said.<\/p>\n

Coastguard Commander Romel Dua of Southern Mindanao District told the AFP news agency that at least 316 people had been rescued so far, with 15 confirmed dead and 28 still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

\u201cA coast guard aircraft is also on the way to help the operation. The Navy and Air Force also sent their assets,\u201d Dua told AFP.<\/p>\n

Emergency responders in Basilan said those\u00a0who were rescued and needed medical attention were brought to a hospital in the capital city of Isabela.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge here really is the number of patients that are coming in. We are short-staffed at the moment,\u201d said Ronalyn Perez, a medic.<\/p>\n

\"ThisPersonnel tend to people who were on board the M\/V Trisha Kerstin 3 around the waters of Baluk-Baluk Island in Basilan [Philippine coastguard via AP]<\/p>\n

Basilan Governor Mujiv Hataman posted clips from the scene at Isabela port in Mindanao on Facebook, showing survivors being ushered off boats, some wrapped in thermal blankets and others being carried on stretchers.<\/p>\n

Hataman told DZBB radio that most survivors were doing well, but several elderly passengers needed emergency medical care.<\/p>\n

He added that authorities were still cross-checking \u200cthe passenger manifest as rescue efforts proceeded.<\/p>\n

Dua, the coastguard commander in Mindanao, said the cause of the ferry sinking was not immediately clear and that there would be an investigation. He added that the coastguard cleared the ferry before it left the Zamboanga port, and there was no sign of overloading.<\/p>\n

Sea accidents are common in the Philippine archipelago because of frequent storms, badly maintained vessels, overcrowding and spotty enforcement of safety regulations, especially in remote provinces.<\/p>\n

On Friday, at least two Filipino sailors were reported killed, and 15 others were rescued after a Singapore-flagged general cargo vessel en route to China from the southern island of Mindanao sank. Four other sailors remain missing.<\/p>\n

Last Monday, a private vessel also sank off the Davao region in Mindanao, leaving at least six dead and nine others missing.<\/p>\n

In December 1987, the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker in the central Philippines, killing more than 4,300 people in the world\u2019s worst peacetime maritime disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The coastguard says at least 316 people have been rescued so far, while 28 others remain missing. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":543795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13214,13021,50,24958,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-543794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-philippines","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115960739690368965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}