MANILA (Reuters) – Ten people have died and 230 been rescued after a passenger ship caught fire on Wednesday evening off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, a coast guard official said.
Nine people were injured in the fire that started in air-conditioned cabins, Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard chief in southern Mindanao, told the DZMM radio station.
(Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Ed Davies)
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