Twelve killed, dozens missing as boat sinks in Amazon

by Sanjay Jha | May 5, 2008 at 01:39 am | 281 views | 1 comment

At least 12 people are reported dead when a boat capsized in the northwestern Brazil.

Twelve killed, dozens missing as boat sinks in Amazon
Mon-May 05, 2008
Rio de Janeiro / Indo-Asian News Service
At least 12 people have been killed and dozens are missing after an overcrowded boat sank in the Amazon River in northwestern Brazil, emergency service officials said.
The boat with nearly 80 people aboard sank at around 5 am Sunday off the town of Manacapuru, some 50 km west of Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas province, the officials said, adding that rescue workers found the bodies of 10 women and two men from the river, EFE news agency reported Monday

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Sanjay Jha

at 01:48 on May 5th, 2008

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