KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 31 people have been killed and 23 more wounded after a fire broke out on a ferry in the southern Philippines.
Many of the more than 200 people who survived the blaze jumped off the MV Lady Mary Joy 3 and were rescued from the dark sea by the coast guard, navy, a nearby ferry and local fishermen, said Governor Jim Hataman of the southern island province of Basilan, Associated Press reported.
Rescuers were still searching Thursday for at least seven missing people, he said.
Hataman said the burned ferry was towed to Basilan’s shoreline . . .
