A TRANS Asia vessel carrying 379 passengers caught fire while it was sailing from Ozamiz City to Cebu province, a report from Coast Guard Station in Cebu City (CGS-Cebu) reported on Friday.

M/V Trans Asia II was sailing 2.4 nautical miles off the coast of Balicasag Island in Bohol province when its Captain Rudy Verba noticed that a thick smoke was coming out from the starboard main engine of the vessel.

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