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A Vanuatu Ferry Sinks Off Espiritu Santo

TL;DR

Reuters files one dead and more than 30 missing after MV Matui sank. Print one and more than 30. Do not invent a closed passenger list.

MSM Perspective

Reuters files the prime minister's office. The Guardian files the same Sunday search. A missing count is not a cause.

X Perspective

Pacific feeds treat a missing count as a closed disaster.

One person died and more than 30 remained missing after the ferry Matui sank off Espiritu Santo. [1] Reuters filed the prime minister's office. [1] The Guardian filed the same Sunday search. [2] Print one and more than 30. Do not invent a closed passenger list. Do not invent a cause.

A Santo-to-Ambae run is not Virgo and not June Aster. Leave a named later UNGA cancel to the edition that owns a named later cancel. Print the missing. Print not a closed disaster.

Print more than 30. Sunday is not a closed Vanuatu list. One dead is still one. Print more than 30 as Sunday's named Matui hold. Rough seas are still not a certified overload finding. Print one as still the named dead. Print missing as still missing. Print more than 30 as still the only honest Sunday word.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo

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