14 drowned in Pak boat accident
Divers have recovered the bodies of 14 women and children and 21 people are still missing after a boat capsized in the sea off Pakistan, officials said Saturday, lowering earlier estimates of 70 dead.
The overloaded boat was ferrying 70 mourners from Jangisar town, about 100km southeast of Karachi, to a funeral in a nearby village when it sank on Friday, a Sindh provincial government spokesman said.
"About half those on board have been rescued. But the bodies of 14 women and children have been recovered and at least 21 boat passengers are missing, feared drowned," spokesman Salahuddin Haider told AFP.
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