Sulpicio Express Siete after mishap with MV St. Thomas Aquinas. Coastguard rescuers ride a rubber boat past the damaged bow of the Sulpicio Express 7 cargo vessel, which collided with a ferry on Friday in Talisay, Cebu in central Philippines August 17, 2013. The ferry sank after colliding with the container ship owned by a company involved in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster, killing at least 24 people and leaving more than 200 missing, the coast guard said on Saturday.
The death toll from the maritime tragedy last weekend involving the collision of a passenger vessel and a cargo ship in Cebu waters rose to 40 with the recovery of another body early Monday.
A fisherman recovered the body of a girl aged 2 to 3 near the Talisay command center, radio dzBB’s Cebu affiliate Jasmine Baylosis reported.
The Coast Guard’s official figures as of 5:30 p.m. Sunday had included 39 dead, 750 rescued, and 81 still missing.
For their part, technical divers prepared to dive again at the site of the tragedy to look for survivors or bodies.
Meanwhile, dzBB’s Carlo Mateo reported the Philippine Coast Guard beefed up its Special Operations Group in Cebu to conduct search and rescue operations.
Coast Guard spokesman Cmdr. Armand Balilo said the search-and-rescue vessel BRP Pampanga with 12 SOG divers arrived in Talisay Sunday.
The Coast Guard is also scheduled to fly a helicopter over the area Monday for an aerial search and to check the extent of an oil spill. —KG, GMA News
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
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of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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September –
5 Sept – Intl Day of Charity
7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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