Filipino sailor killed in Sri Lanka; 6 arrested
Sri Lanka police say a Filipino sailor was hacked to death in a ship anchored at the Colombo port and six fellow sailors have been arrested over the killing.
Sri Lanka police say a Filipino sailor was hacked to death in a ship anchored at the Colombo port and six fellow sailors have been arrested over the killing.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday said that it was still verifying reports that a Filipino was among the five people reported killed after a lifeboat they were in fell into the sea from a cruise ship docked at the port of Santa Cruz in the Canary Islands Sunday.
Three Filipino and two Chinese sailors died Thursday when a South Korean coastguard boat capsized after rescuing them from a sinking cargo ship, officials and reports said.
