It is possible, a Coast Guard official said, that some crew members died due to 'head trauma' from the collision.
MANILA — Three fishers were killed after an unidentified commercial fishing vessel allegedly rammed a fishing boat off Bajo de Masinloc , the Philippine Coast Guard said on Wednesday.
In a statement, the PCG said the captain of the fishing boat Dearyn was among those killed when it sank after the collision 85 nautical miles — 157.42 kilometers — from Bajo de Masinloc.A member of the crew told the Coast Guard that the fishing boat was moored to a payao — a floating fish aggregating device — when the collision happened.
The crew members brought the bodies of those killed to Barangay Cato in Infanta, Pangasinan using their service boats and arrived there on Tuesday morning. Alex Corpuz, the Coast Guard's station commander in Pangasinan, said the incident happened during bad weather. "Ang sabi ng crew, madilim noon at medyo masama ang panahon at umuulan sa lugar. Ongoing yung investigation natin.
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