At least 50 people were reported killed in Myanmar when a ferry carrying about 209 passengers sank in bad weather, Myanmar government official said. The boat had 209 people on board when it ran into high seas on Saturday morning on a voyage from the coastal town of Taungyok to Sittwe, official said. "Twenty bodies have been found while 27 are still missing. Rescue workers are looking for the missing people", Pyay Nyein, a sernior official from the Inland Water Transport Department, told Reutets news Agency. "There are many dead bodies which didn't appear yet", local MP Maung Lonr told AFP on telephone.
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