Death toll in Amazon rises to 21 in ferryboat sinking
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Rescue workers Tuesday found the bodies of four more passengers of a river boat that sank while ferrying people from a religious festival in northern Brazil. The discovery raises the death toll to 21.
Thai Stocks Surge Ahead 2.24 PercentDeputy Fire Commander, Col. Carlos Bacelar said at least 60 passengers survived the accident and that as many as 10 could still be missing.
"I really don't think we will find more than five or 10 bodies," Bacelar said, adding "there may be a few more survivors out there who have been unable to make contact with authorities or friends or relatives."
Bacelar said now believe there were fewer than 100 people on the two-story wooden ferry, the Comandante Sales, when it sank on Sunday. The ferry had no passenger list.
The passengers attended a Roman Catholic festival before the ferry capsized in a pre-dawn rainstorm on the Solimoes River, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries.
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