PHILIPPINE VESSELS COLLIDE AT SEA
Baku, 24 December (AZERTAC). At least 27 people are missing after a passenger ferry collided with a fishing boat in the Philippines, officials say.
The wooden-hulled ferry and the fishing boat were carrying at least 73 people between them, when they collided in Manila Bay in the early hours.
Coastguard spokesman Commander Armando Balilo told local media that 46 people had been rescued from the waters.
There were no reports of bad weather conditions in the area and the cause of the collision is not yet clear. The incident comes as thousands of people in the Philippines travel home for the Christmas period.
