Death toll may reach 200 in Philippines ferry disaster
Hopes of finding survivors from a sunken ferry in the Philippines faded Sunday as the search operation for 171 missing passengers was called off. Thirty-one people are known to have died in the collision between the ferry Thomas Aquinas and a cargo ship, the Sulcon Express 7. A total of 723 passengers and 118 crew were aboard the ferry when it sank in just a half-hour after the collision at 9pm local time on Friday.
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