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.

Forty-one more bodies moved Palawan's toll from Friday's thirty-five to seventy-six. Burned remains still await names. The Manila-to-Coron run burned on the ninth without a certified blast. This edition prints seventy-six and keeps the inquiry open.
Forty-one more bodies moved Palawan from Friday's 35 to Saturday's 76. Burned remains still await names. The ninth's fire has no certified blast.

Burned remains still await names. The inquiry stays open. Palawan moved from Friday's 35 to Saturday's 76.

Burned remains still await names. The inquiry stays open. Saturday's June Aster file is 76, not Friday's 35.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing