Eleven dead after Indonesia boat capsizes

This handout picture taken and released on April 28, 2023 by the Indonesia Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) shows rescue workers moving victim's bodies after a passenger boat overturned shortly after leaving Tembilahan port in Indragiri Hilir Regency a day earlier. - AFP

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AFP): Eleven people drowned in western Indonesia after a passenger boat carrying dozens overturned, an official said Friday (April 28).

Rescuers saved 62 people and found the bodies of mostly women and children after the accident off the coast of western Riau province on Thursday afternoon, local search and rescue agency official Kukuh Widodo said in a statement.