Police search for 2 missing tourists, abandoned yacht found

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Police search for 2 missing tourists, abandoned yacht found
M/V Catherine is last seen at Aborlan town in Palawan with a couple on board. They are reportedly missing.
 

MANILA, Philippines – An abandoned yacht was found 4 pm Saturday, April 26, in a Palawan town, prompting a police search of two foreigners supposedly on board and last seen mid-April.

A police source said M/V Catherine was reportedly among a handful of motor yachts bound for Sabah, Malaysia on April 14. The rest were able to arrive safely, while M/V Catherine was last seen at Aborlan town in Palawan.

On board the subject yacht were Stephan Okoveix and Henrike Diesen.

Reportedly a German couple, Okoveix and Diesen came from Sabah before heading to Palawan in 2013. They arrived in the Philippines on August 2, 2013 at the Abanico Yacht Club in Palawan.

Their yacht was found in Bgy Tagnato, Bataraza town in Palawan by village official Pery Cabacang when he was about to go fishing.

Elements of the Bataraza Municipal Police Station are now conducting a probe into the whereabouts of Okoveix and Diesen.

Missing yacht

Senior Superintendent David Martinez, director of the Palawan provincial police, earlier said a joint search operation was conducted to trace the missing yacht.

In an interview Friday evening, April 25, Martinez said the police had coordinated with the Coast Guard and the Armed Forces to search for the yacht.

He added that thus far there had been no indication of a kidnap. At the time, the yacht had not been found.

Gumamit na kami ng helicopter. Gumamit na kami ng mga boats para hanapin yung sinasabi nilang yate na sinasakyan nung alleged victim…wala naman kaming makitang indication,” he said a day before the yacht was traced. 

(We already used a helicopter. We already used boats to search for the said yacht that the alleged victims boarded… We have not seen any indication.) 

Authorities have yet to confirm if the couple was indeed kidnapped. – Rappler.com

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