RESCUERS aboard helicopters and speed boats were desperately searching on Saturday for more than 200 people missing after a ferry sank in the Philippines, with at least 26 already confirmed dead.

The St. Thomas Aquinas ferry was carrying 870 passengers and crew when it collided with a cargo ship on Friday night in calm waters near the port of Cebu, the Philippines' second biggest city, authorities said.

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