About 17 individuals passed away and 60 continued to be missing after a vessel sank off Madagascar’s northeast coast early on Monday. The information was shared by maritime authorities.
Jean Edmond Randrianantenaina, the port authority chief, said that of 130 passengers, 45 aboard could be rescued. Rescue searches had been continuing for those remaining. Local volunteers have also come forward to the mission.
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He added the vessel was nothing more than a cargo ship that had...