Bodies pulled from sea as Philippine ferry toll rises to 29

This screen grab from a handout video from the Philippine Coast Guard, taken and received on Jan 29, 2026, shows coast guard personnel carrying the body of a victim from the sunken MV Trisha Kerstin 3, at the port in Isabela, Basilan. - AFP

MANILA: Eleven more bodies were pulled from waters off the southern Philippines on Thursday (Jan 29), the coast guard said, days after a ferry capsized and threw hundreds of people into the sea.

The discovery brought the confirmed death toll to 29, officials said in a statement, three days after the MV Trisha Kerstin 3 went down off southwestern Mindanao in the early hours of Monday.