Another ferry disaster...partly caused by heavy waves due to a typhoon aftermath caused trucks to shift, and then the ferry to hit a reef. Many sleeping inside never made it out.
But the big news is this part:
Villagers help
After hearing screams in the darkness, San Francisco resident Ronaldo Cabague went out to check and found three bedraggled and shivering individuals who told him of the disaster.
Cabague immediately alerted his neighbors and prepared his small motorized outrigger for a rescue operation.
Cabague and his fellow fishermen, all members of Bantay Dagat, were able to initially rescue 50 passengers and recover four bodies. Hours later, they plucked 75 more survivors out of the raging waters.
San Francisco Mayor Tan said the death toll from the maritime disaster could have been higher had Cabague and his team not acted quickly.
“They were prepared. They knew what to do,” Tan said of the fishermen, adding that volunteers from Barangay Nasalaan also rushed to help the passengers.
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