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Toxic cargo halts ferry search

Philippines authorities said Sulpicio Lines, the owner of the Princess of the Stars, would be held accountable for not alerting them to the 400 boxes of endosulfan. The company has been heavily critisized for allowing the ferry, with nearly 900 passengers and crew on board, to set sail during a typhoon at the weekend. Only 56 people are known to have survived after the vessel capsized in heavy seas.

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