Myanmar wedding boat toll rises to 30: HumSub.TV
Myanmar wedding boat toll rises to 30: HumSub.TV: Rescuers Sunday found more bodies from a boat accident in western Myanmar that has now claimed the lives of at least 30 people, most of them guests returning from a wedding.
The boat, called “Silver Star” in Burmese, sank Friday evening in a river near Pathein, a port city west of Yangon.
It was believed to be carrying around 60 passengers when it collided with another vessel in the dark.
Rescuers pulled 21 bodies from the river on Saturday and have since discovered more victims.
“We got nine dead bodies, three men and six women, today,” a police officer at Pathein police station told AFP, asking not to be named.
It is unlikely there are many more victims to be found. On Saturday evening a local MP said nine people were missing.
Local media photos showed frenzied scenes as rescuers worked throughout the early hours of Saturday to wheel stretchers away from the river and lay bodies onshore.
Fatal boat accidents are common in Myanmar, a poor country with rudimentary transport and weakly-enforced safety regulations.
Vessels ferrying people along the coastline and rivers are often dangerously overcrowded, and accidents can have staggering death tolls. It can also take several days for all bodies to be retrieved.
Last October, 73 people, including many teachers and students, drowned when their overloaded vessel capsized in central Myanmar on the Chindwin River.
Around 60 people died in March 2015 when their ferry sank in rough waters off the western state of Rakhine.
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