58 missing after Indonesia boat sinks
Rescuers said 58 people were still missing two days after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia - revising sharply upwards the number of people on board the vessel, the Straits Times reports.
'The latest update we have so far is that the boat was carrying 70 passengers when it sank. With 12 people rescued, we still have 58 missing,' rescue official Rebekka Gultom told AFP, adding that those numbers include crew members.
Search and rescue officials said on Sunday that only 27 people were on board and that 12 had been rescued.
'The manifest showed that it carried 27 people but it turned out that the boat carried more, 70 people. We got the figure after families of the missing people reported to us,' Ms Gultom said.