Four killed, 100 rescued in Indonesia boat sink
Four passengers were killed but 100 others rescued when an overloaded boat filled with Indonesians going home for Christmas sank off the Maluku islands yesterday, a district official said.
"Four people were found dead: two women, an 11-year-old boy and a seven-month baby," Silvester Temmar, head of Maluku Tenggara Barat district in the east of the country, told AFP.
"The remaining 100 passengers have been rescued alive and no one is reported missing."
He said the wooden boat, with a capacity of about 50 passengers, was heavily overloaded and began to sink when it was hit by bad weather.
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