Earlier we reported<\/a> that one of the passengers aboard the MV June Aster was Marlon Magbanua. <\/p>\nI’ve just spoken to his wife, Anelyn, who said that Magbanua, a fisherman, had gone to Manila earlier this week to visit their two children who are enrolled in a Catholic school in the capital.<\/p>\n
“He spent a couple of days there. He even sent me their picture,” she says.<\/p>\n
Magbanua’s ferry was supposed to arrive at the port around 19:00, and Anelyn and her two-year-old son went to bed. <\/p>\n
But around 22:00, Magbanua’s cousin arrived at the house to inform her that the ferry had caught fire.<\/p>\n
“I can’t describe what I am feeling right now. I have been crying and praying since last night.”<\/p>\n
Earlier today, when she heard that someone had seen a “Marlon Magbanua” among the rescued, Anelyn pleaded with officials in her village to drive her to Coron hospital.<\/p>\n
“My two-year-old son and I are outside the hospital as we speak,” she says. “We have nothing but ourselves. It has also been raining.”<\/p>\n
Officials have since told her that they have not seen her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I have been crying and praying since last night’ – wife of passengerpublished at 05:05 BST 05:05 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-765840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Virma Simonette Rivera![\"Marlon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/62b07c78-ef22-4bbd-a234-ea280d294000.jpg.webp\")
Image source, Ann Magbanua<\/p>\n