At least 16 people, most of them children, drowned when a packed wooden motorboat capsized during a religious parade on the central Philippine island of Leyte on Sunday, a senior coast guard official said, according to Reuters. Several people are missing and about 30 were rushed to hospitals in San Ricardo town after the accident during a feast. "We've dispatched more search-and-rescue ships to the area," coastguard commander Arthur Gosingan said. "We're getting very sketchy reports. We have no idea how many people were on the boat when it capsized and sank near the wharf this morning." He said officials feared the number of dead could rise.
