The death toll from the MV June Aster fire off Coron, Palawan, rose to 76 after 41 more bodies were found. [1] Friday this paper printed thirty-five. Saturday the count moved. Al Jazeera filed identification of badly burned remains as still underway. [2]

The passenger-cargo vessel, operated by Atienza Interisland Ferries, caught fire on September 9 on the Manila-to-Coron run. [2] Saturday's file does not close a cause. A higher count is not a closed inquiry. Do not invent an explosion as fact if the desk has not certified one. Print 76. Leave a cause to the edition that owns a cause.

Reuters filed that the Philippines had begun identifying victims with dozens still missing earlier in the recovery. [3] Unaccounted names on a manifest are not extra bodies. Survivors are not a closed passenger list. Print the Saturday toll. Print that identification continues. Leave Sunday's recaps to Sunday.

The captain faced a probe in Saturday's stack. A probe is not a conviction. The Coast Guard's recovery is not a salvage order. Print 76. Do not print a finished search if the search is not finished.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing