REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BATAM -- Three bodies of passengers of MV Thorco Cloud, which sank in the waters between Batam and Singapore on December 16, 2015, have been repatriated to the Philippines after undergoing autopsy in a hospital, a spokesman stated.

"The three bodies of the Filipinos were found several days after the accident, and process of their autopsy has been completed," head of the Riau Islands Provincial police medical doctor Adjunct Senior Commissioner Djarot Wibowo stated here on Monday.

The three victims were identified as Sumaculub Jose Myrvin Delos Santos, Gabay Nino, and Dobo Rodulfo Damante, he said, adding that the victims were found floating.

According to him, the three bodies would be flown from Batam through Jakarta to the Philippines.

Earlier, six persons of the ill-fated ship were reportedly went missing, before rescuers found the three floating bodies.

MV Thorco Cloud V2FU6 sank after colliding with "MV Stolt Commitment" on Wednesday night (Dec 16, 2015) in the waters in the borderline between Batam and Singapore.

Although the accident occurred in the waters of the bordering area, but the scene tends to be closed to Indonesia.

Another six persons survived, Wibowo noted, explaining that another three foreign national victims of different sinking ship also went missing.

In the meantime, chief of Batam chapter of the Indonesian Coast and Sea Guard Unit or KPLP Gajah Rooseno explained that three missing victims were supposed to have been trapped in the engine room when the accident occurred that made them failed to survive.

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