EIGHT members of a dragon boat team were confirmed to have died after their boat capsized off Boracay in Aklan on Wednesday.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), as well as the local government unit of Malay, Aklan, initially reported that there were seven casualties, but new information from Philippine National Police-Police Regional Office 6 confirmed the death of an eighth person - team leader Von Navarossa who died at the Saint Gabriel Hospital in Boracay where he and 13 survivors were brought following the accident.

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