MANILA/ORMOC: The death toll from a capsized Philippine ferry rose to 51 on Friday as rescuers tried to right the overturned vessel and found more bodies, a coast guard official said.

Rescue workers are winding down the search for survivors and bodies aboard a 33-ton ferry that capsized shortly after departing from the port of Ormoc City on Thursday.

Coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said on Friday all 187 passengers and crew members of the M/B Kim Nirvana have been accounted. He says 142 survived and there are no more reports of anyone missing.

Balilo says they are waiting for the regional coast guard commander to declare an end to the search and rescue operation. A floating crane has pulled the 36-ton wooden motorized outrigger close to Ormoc port. Scores, sometimes hundreds, of people die each year from ferry accidents in the Philippines, an archipelago of 7,100 islands with a notoriously poor record for maritime safety.

Anguished families wept over the bodies of dead relatives as the search for survivors from the Philippines’ latest ferry disaster ended Friday with 45 confirmed deaths, officials said.

Seven bodies were retrieved from the ship’s upended wooden hull on Friday, including that of a one-year-old boy. His brother, Gilbert de la Cruz, 10, who survived the disaster, wailed over the dead infant’s remains, which had been placed in a black body bag. “There’s no more hope for survivors,” Ciriaco Tolibao from the city’s disaster risk reduction and management office told ANC television.