Fourteen missing, presumed drowned after two Sierra Leone boat incidents

FILE PHOTO: Families of fishermen wait at the Tombu harbour for the boats to return with the day's catch, outside Freetown, Sierra Leone April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen/File Photo

FREETOWN (Reuters) - More than a dozen people are presumed to have drowned in two separate boat incidents in Sierra Leone this week, authorities said on Wednesday.

Five people died when two makeshift passenger boats collided off the southern district of Bonthe on Monday, the head of the country's maritime administration told Reuters.