Search continues for 12 missing passengers of fire-hit ferry

CALAPAN CITY, ORIENTAL MINDORO, Philippines — Search and rescue operations continued Monday, Sept.14 for 12 people still missing after passenger ferry M/V June Aster caught fire off Coron, Palawan, with authorities starting a dewatering operation to search the submerged ship’s lower section. Kristine Mechelle Ablaña, municipal tourism officer of Coron, said in a phone interview that the