Eleven of those who went missing after an overloaded ferry capsized in churning rapids on a remote Borneo river have been found safe, a Malaysian police official was quoted as saying yesterday.
Authorities had estimated the number of missing at 23 before the latest survivors were found, but the police official reportedly said the precise number was unclear due to the lack of a passenger manifest. Divers have been sent to search the boat, which was carrying more than 200 passengers - about three times its capacity - as people headed home for a festival celebrated by indigenous tribes in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.