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MANILA, Philippines – Five people drowned and 900 terrified passengers, many roused from their sleep, were rescued after the M/V SuperFerry 9 sailing from General Santos City to Iloilo City listed then sank off Zamboanga del Norte early yesterday.

A search was under way for 63 people who remained missing, Coast Guard Commandant Rear Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo said, adding that they may have drifted with their life jackets or have been rescued but were not yet listed as survivors.

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“We really hope they’re just unaccounted for due to the confusion,” Tamayo said.

The rescued passengers and crewmen on board the Superferry 9 were transferred to two nearby commercial ships, a navy gunboat and a fishing boat hours after the ferry began to list before dawn.

A child’s body was fished out of waters near the site, according to Lt. Commander Armand Balilio, Coast

MANILA (AFP) – – Two people were killed Sunday as a ship listed before sinking off the southern Philippines as hundreds were rescued in an operation involving naval and civilian vessels, officials said.

The ship sank about six nautical miles off the west coast of Zamboanga peninsula on Mindanao island, Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said.

Rescuers were five hours into an operation to evacuate 847 passengers listed on board the Philippines-flagged Superferry 9, which was on its way to the central port of Iloilo from General Santos City in the south.

The crew of 117 had earlier tried to save the vessel.

“We have two (fatalities),” Rear Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo, the coastguard chief, earlier said on local radio, adding that three people were hurt.

He did not disclose details about the deaths and injuries. Earlier, authorities said some people had jumped into the water in panic before dawn as the vessel began to tilt to