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The management of the passenger ferry that caught fire off Basilan Wednesday has begun extending financial assistance to the families of the fatalities and the injured and apologized for the mishap that killed 29 people and hurt dozens others.
A spark from a ceiling lamp in a passenger cabin may have caused the fire that killed dozens of passengers on the ferry Lady Mary Joy 3 off Basilan, Philippine Coast Guard investigators said yesterday.
Regional police said a fire of still undetermined origin broke on the boat while it was in the municipal seas of Hadji Muhtamad town in Basilan.