AT least 28 people were confirmed dead and more than 200 people are missing after a collision between a passenger ferry and a cargo vessel in Cebu province Friday night, government disaster reports said on Saturday.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said the M/V St. Thomas Aquinas and a cargo ship M/V Sulpicio Express collided near a port in Lawis Ledge, Talisay City.

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