Divers hoping for a miracle find only bodies in ferry

DIVERS found bodies in lifevests bobbing in airpockets of a giant sunken ferry in the Philippines yesterday, and an official said it would be a miracle if any of the hundreds of missing had survived.

The MV Princess of the Stars had more than 860 people on board when it ran aground and capsized in huge swells off the cost of Sibuyan Island during a typhoon last Saturday.

There are fears that hundreds more bodies may be trapped within the seven-storey vessel after survivors said many did not make it off in time.