Browsing by Subject "accidents"

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    • 12 fishermen killed in lake clashes 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, July 11, 2018, on page 4)
      At least 12 fishermen have died and a dozen more are missing after deadly clashes on Lake Edward, which is shared by Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congolese official said Monday. "The 12 bodies of our ...

    • 3 drown in Sagay river 

      (SunStar Philippines, April 13, 2021, on page 1)
      Three persons, including a student, drowned on Sunday, April 11, while gathering seashells locally known as "kayog" at the Himogaan River in Barangay Paraiso, Sagay City. Based on police investigation, the three victims ...

    • 4 survive aircraft accident in Zambo 

      Zurbano, Joel E. (Manila Standard, July 8, 2020, on page A8)
      Four persons on board a training aircraft survived after their plane ditched near the sea wall of Sinunuc Boulevard in Zamboanga City Tuesday morning. Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines spokesperson and chief ...

    • Bagac sea mishap leaves 4 dead, 1 missing, 45 rescued 

      Esconde, Ernie (The Manila Times, June 27, 2022, on page A8)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) substation in Morong, Bataan on Sunday reported that four fisherfolk died, one missing, and 45 were rescued when the fishers' boat capsized due to strong waves while fishing along the ...

    • China ship pays $29M for reef disaster 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, September 20, 2016, on page B7)
      The owners of a Chinese ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef in 2010 agreed to pay Australia Aus$39. 3 million ($29.6 million) on Monday, in a settlement dismissed by conservationists as "woefully inadequate." ...

    • Fishing boat captain apologizes to Duterte 

      Delos Reyes, Nikki (The Manila Times, June 20, 2019, on page A8)
      The captain of the fishing boat that figured in an incident at midnight of June 10 with a Chinese vessel in Recto Bank, apologized to President Duterte on Wednesday. In a press conference at the municipal hall, Capt. Junel ...

    • Gem-Ver fishers finally getting ₱6-M compensation 

      Santos, Tina G. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 29, 2022, on page A6)
      Almost three years after what President Duterte played down as a “little maritime accident,” the 22 fishermen left for dead by a Chinese trawler that rammed their small fishing boat in the West Philippine Sea will finally ...

    • Iloilo oil spill sparks calls to limit use of fossil fuels 

      Mayuga, Jonathan L. (BusinessMirror, July 7, 2020, on page A8)
      AC Energy is facing severe penalty and fine for the Iloilo oil spill under Republic Act 9275 or the Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004. This, as several groups have expressed fear that failure to contain the oil spill may ...

    • Residents rescue occupants of plane that crashed at sea 

      Lacson, Nonoy E. (Manila Bulletin, July 8, 2020, on page 8)
      A twin-engine six-seater training aircraft crash landed at sea along the coastal boulevard of Sinunuc early Tuesday, July 7, after it suffered engine trouble a few minutes after it took off from the Zamboanga International ...

    • Sea search for missing victims of Mindoro boat collision ends with no recovery-PCG 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, July 8, 2020, on page A4)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has ended its search and retrieval operations without recovering any of the 14 persons aboard the fishing vessel F/V Liberty 5, which sank in the waters of Occidental Mindoro following a ...

    • Small plane crash-lands at sea 

      Jacinto, Al (The Manila Times, July 8, 2020, on page A9)
      A small private plane carrying three foreigners and a Filipino crash-landed at sea off a coastal village in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga on Tuesday. The four passengers — two Indians, a Nepalese and the ...

    • Solons advocate coastal restoration 

      Golez, Prince (Panay News, June 7, 2016, on page 7)
      Two House members on Monday underlined the important role of mangrove and beach forests along coastlines. Coastal reforestation could help cope with impacts of both natural and manmade disasters, they said.

    • Whale strikes boat off Australian coast, man killed 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, October 1, 2023, on page B5)
      A man was killed and another was injured after a whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia on Saturday, police said. The two men were thrown from the boat when it was hit at about 6 a.m. in the waters off La ...