An overcrowded barge carrying pagoda sinks on the Bocaue river during an annual religious festival in Bocaue, Bulacan

When

2 Jul 1993

Kind

Event

Coordinates

14.80° N, 120.93° E

Placed at the town its text puts it in, Bocaue.

An overcrowded barge carrying pagoda sinks on the Bocaue river during an annual religious festival in Bocaue, Bulacan. Official death toll is 315 including 30 missing; although some reports ranging it from more than 260 up to 326. It is the country's deadliest accident involving river procession.

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