Sixteen more were missing after the boat carrying at least 100 migrants from the port of Bossasso in Somalia capsized as it approached Yemen, UN migration agency said.
The accident happened on the Momboyo river Wednesday night. The boat was transporting passengers and a large amount of goods from the town of Monkoto to the city of Mbandaka.
The vessel carrying 56 people, mostly women and children, was intercepted by Malaysian maritime authorities near the northwestern island of Langkawi.
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A major rescue effort involving Colombia's air force and firefighters looks for survivors at the Guatape reservoir in Antioquia state where the accident took place.
Thirty people were rescued while some are still missing after the unlit boat carrying wedding guests collided with a cargo ship on a river in the port city of Pathein.
Despite rough winter seas, migrant departures from Libya on boats chartered by people traffickers have increased in recent months.
The boat was carrying documented Somali refugees who were travelling from Yemen to Sudan. At least 80 survivors were taken to hospital.
The boat was carrying 50 people, more than its capacity of 30, and it capsized not far from the shore of the Indian city of Patna.
Authorities pulled at least 115 bodies from the Mediterranean Sea by Friday, two days after a boat carrying around 600 refugees capsized off the Egyptian coast.
Refugees trying to reach Europe from African and Asian countries have to undertake a dangerous journey to cross the Mediterranean Sea where 1040 refugees drowned in the last two weeks alone.
Somalia's government says 200 of country's citizens may have died after boat crossing Mediterranean capsized
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