At least 60 dead as boat capsizes off Guinea: TV

Conakry, Mar 30: At least 60 people have been killed after a boat carrying around 120 passengers capsized off the coast of Guinea, state television in the West African country said today.

''It was a pirogue (open fishing boat) with 120 people on board which capsized. Thirty-six people survived,'' the television station said, broadcasting images of survivors being brought ashore.

Reuters