Philippine rescuers board burning ferry 40 hours after blaze began
- They finally got on at about 11:30 local time (03:30 GMT) on Friday, the coast guard said.
- "The biggest challenge for us really is to penetrate the ship [as] there is still a visible, thick smoke," the coastguard's spokeswoman Noemie Cayabyab told the BBC earlier.
- "No matter how we try to push through, high temperatures and toxic smoke remain a severe risk to our personnel," she told local media earlier.
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- They finally got on at about 11:30 local time (03:30 GMT) on Friday, the coast guard said.
- "The biggest challenge for us really is to penetrate the ship [as] there is still a visible, thick smoke," the coastguard's spokeswoman Noemie Cayabyab told the BBC earlier.
- "No matter how we try to push through, high temperatures and toxic smoke remain a severe risk to our personnel," she told local media earlier.
Sources: BBC News