Yangon: At least 50 people are feared dead after a packed passenger ferry crashed into an oil barge in an area of Myanmar that was hit by a devastating cyclone last year, local officials said Tuesday.
The accident happened late Sunday when the wooden boat carrying nearly 180 passengers was travelling along the Ngawun river in the southern Irrawaddy Delta, the officials said.
"The boat sank after colliding with an oil barge. We have recovered 34 bodies and there at least another 16 people missing who are believed to have drowned," said an official in
the area.
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 16:31