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
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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