Searchers have recovered 25 bodies from a ferry that sank in central Myanmar and expect to find scores more corpses as workers begin raising the boat from the riverbed, officials said today. A total of 154 people have been rescued since the boat sank early on Saturday on the Chindwin River about 72 kilometres (45 miles) north of the city of Monywa. University students, teachers on itEarlier he told AFP the ferry had been filled with “mainly university students and schoolteachers” when it sank at around 5:00 am on Saturday. “I think around 70 or 80 university students and about 30 schoolteachers, and also doctors,” he added. In March last year 33 people lost their lives off the west coast when an overloaded ferry sank in rough waters.

Source: The Hindu October 17, 2016 09:22 UTC