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'Dozens missing' as boat capsizes

Updated on 04 January 2009

Source PA News

At least two people were killed and dozens of others were missing when an overcrowded boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in a river in eastern Nepal.

More than 50 people were believed to be on board the boat and only 14 were rescued from the Saptakosi river, about 250 miles (400km) south-east of the capital Katmandu, government official Durga Bhandari said.

Mr Bhandari said two bodies were pulled from the water.

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