At least 23 people were killed and six people were missing after a small boat capsized near the Philippines capital Manila on Thursday.
The boat capsized after passengers panicked and ran to the vessel's left side in reaction to a sudden gust of wind, Coast Guard spokesman Rear Admiral Armando Balilo said.
Rescuers are combing Laguna Lake, 37km south-east of Manila, trying to locate the missing.
It was not immediately clear how many people were on board, but Jose Hernandez, chief of the disaster agency of Binangonan town, said 40 people had been rescued.
The boat was about 45m from land when it capsized, the Coast Guard said.
Boating accidents are common in the Philippines.
Eleven people were rescued on Saturday after the same type of boat – known as a motorbanca – ran aground and sank near Surigao.
Five people were injured when another motorbanca caught fire in the city of Zamboanga in early July, while tourists were left stranded on motorbancas in incidents reported in March, April and May.
The boat incident comes as the northern part of the country grapples with Typhoon Doksuri, which has killed at least six people and displaced thousands on Luzon, the Philippines’ largest and most populous island. It battered the island with gusts of up to 215kph.
Taiwan and coastal cities in China are now bracing for the typhoon to make landfall.
Schools and offices in the Chinese city of Shantou will be closed until the end of Friday, officials said, joining the Taiwanese cities of Kaohsiung and Tainan which have also shut.
Kaohsiung also moved about 300 residents of a mountainous part of the district, according to the semi-official Central News Agency.
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Tearful appearance
Chancellor Rachel Reeves set markets on edge as she appeared visibly distraught in parliament on Wednesday.
Legislative setbacks for the government have blown a new hole in the budgetary calculations at a time when the deficit is stubbornly large and the economy is struggling to grow.
She appeared with Keir Starmer on Thursday and the pair embraced, but he had failed to give her his backing as she cried a day earlier.
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