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.
Fire-at-sea searches count the missing in dozens while confirming the dead one by one. Thirty-five confirmed leaves the manifest's remainder open. Saturday's recoveries belong to Saturday.
Open manifests close slowly; Friday's stays open. Dozens missing remain dozens. Saturday counts again.
Dozens missing remain dozens; Friday prints 35 confirmed. Not 76. Coast Guard PDFs belong to later desks.
Friday's recap prints 35. Saturday's recoveries belong to Saturday. The manifest stays open.
GMA matched Reuters at 35 after the extra recoveries, and the search on the burned hull is still the verb. Atienza's Manila-to-Coron fire remains a September 9 event with dozens missing. Friday will not close the inquiry to force a cause. Seventy-six is not on this clock.
Friday prints 35, not Saturday's 76. The manifest stays open. Saturday's recoveries belong to Saturday.
Friday's June Aster file is 35, not Saturday's 76. The inquiry stays open on Friday. Saturday's recoveries are Saturday's news.
-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing