Tourist boat capsizes in Baguio

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines  -- A swan-shaped tourist row boat the newly-rehabilitated  lake at the Burnham Park capsized Monday afternoon,  sending a family of four including a child into the now deeper lake waters here.

Though Baguio tourist police said the tourists from Malabon were not seriously hurt, besides getting wet and their electronic gadgets soaked in lake waters,  the incident raises questions about the safety of tourists in the boating area.

Reports said the boat concessionaire  paid the tourist family P11,000 for the damaged electronic gadgets.

The man-made lake was dredged of mud last February and the rehabilitation has deepened the water to eight feet.

“They were safe though,” said tourist police head Inspector Virgilio Hidalgo stationed at Burnham Park.