MANILA, Philippines - Divers recovered on Monday nine more bodies from the sunken MV St. Thomas Aquinas in Cebu waters.
A radio report said the cadavers were taken around 9 a.m. to the Talisay fishport which serves as a command center for the retrieval operations in the area.
The remains of the passengers of the ill-fated ferry were placed in body bags when brought to the fishport. The cadavers have yet to be identified by authorities, the report said.