The death toll from the MV June Aster fire off Coron, Palawan, rose to 35 after rescuers recovered 30 more bodies. [1] GMA filed the same 35. [2] Reuters filed the search resumed on the burned vessel. [1] A higher count is not a closed inquiry. Print 35. Do not invent a cause. Later counts belong to later editions.
The passenger-cargo vessel, operated by Atienza Interisland Ferries, caught fire on September 9 on the Manila-to-Coron run. Dozens remained missing in Friday copy. Unaccounted names on a manifest are not extra bodies. Print Friday's 35. Leave Saturday's recoveries to Saturday.
Friday recap that treats 35 as a finished search is a feed, not Reuters. Print 35. Do not print 76.
Saturday can recap; Friday prints 35.
-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing