Philippine ferry disaster investigators quit over ‘bias’

Updated Wednesday, July 9, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

Philippine ferry disaster investigators quit over ‘bias’

MANILA -- Two members of a Philippine panel investigating a ferry disaster which cost about 800 lives quit Tuesday after the ship’s operator accused them of bias. Rear Admiral Benjamin Mata and Commodore Amado Romillo of the Philippine Coast Guard said they were stepping down to “preserve the integrity” of the board of marine inquiry.

The Princess of the Stars sank after sailing into Typhoon Fengshen on June 21 off the central coast. Of more than 850 people on board, less than 60 survived. “I have resigned to preserve the integrity of the inquiry,” Mata told reporters, adding there “have been accusations that I have been impartial and (have) pre-judged the case.”

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