Candles were lit, flowers were offered and bells were rung once more when residents in Bocaue, Bulacan held a fluvial procession along the Bocaue River on Sunday to remember the pagoda tragedy that struck the town three decades ago.
that struck the town three decades ago that claimed the lives of 297 persons when the cross-bearing floating craft tipped over due to excess weight.
Up until 2014, Bocaue has stopped holding the fluvial procession that was part of the town’s annual river festival, where devotees paid tribute to the “Mahal na Krus sa Wawa” .In Sunday’s novena Mass aboard the well-lit pagoda built by the local government, the names of the victims were recited in prayers, as the Bocaue Parish Church’s bell tolled while the pagoda was navigating the river to commemorate the 30th year since the July 2, 1993 tragedy.
Jacinto Pascual IV, 45, a resident of Barangay Bambang who did not watch Sunday’s 45-minute river procession, said the tragedy had tormented him for years as the grim images of people around him, including his friends, who were screaming for help while drowning kept popping into his head until today.
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