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escape, 2 injured
as Ciara Joie capsizes
BY JESSAR DURA
One hundred six persons escaped danger and possibly
death by rushing off a 136-ton roll on roll off vessel as it turned
upside down shortly before it departed from the Bacolod Real Estate
Development Corp. Port at the Reclamation Area in Bacolod City
at about 2 p.m. Saturday.
Two persons identified as Jean Marie Depalubos,
12, and Arturo Magaluyo were injured while they struggled to get
off the vessel. They were rushed to the Riverside Medical Center
in the city with injuries in their feet.
Fernando Noblezada, 61, captain of the M/V Ciara
Joie owned by Aleson Shipping Lines Inc., said the vessel tipped
when a forklift slipped off the gangplank dropping a 10-footer
container van weighing 15 tons on the vessel, causing an imbalance
in its weight.
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