TodayInHistory On this day in 2015, 62 people perished after the overloaded ferry MB Kim Nirvana-B capsized in Ormoc City. READ:
When the boat capsized, she held on to a section of the boat and never let go until she was rescued about 30 minutes later.
“The number of fatalities is still subject to verification,” PCG spokesman Armand Balilo said in a phone interview.Balilo confirmed that the Eastern Visayas District of the PCG reported that the death toll rose to 59 as of Saturday. “We have to look, search and give justice to those who perished and those who are still missing,”he said.
Each sack of rice, cement and fertilizer weighs 50 kilos and 150 sacks would easily add 7,500 kilos to the ship’s load, excluding passengers, he said. The complaint was filed at the Ormoc city prosecutor’s office on Friday night, said Chief Supt. Asher Dolina, police director for Eastern Visayas.
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