The death toll from the capsizing of an overloaded boat in rough seas off Sierra Leone's northern coast has risen to 10, with 45 other passengers missing and feared dead, a naval commander said Saturday. Lt. Cmdr. Mohammed Mansaray of the Sierra Leone navy, said 72 people were aboard the vessel when it overturned Thursday near the mouth of the Little Scarcies River at Bailo Point along this West African nation's Atlantic Ocean coast. Local fishermen and navy search teams rescued 17 survivors and recovered 10 corpses by the end of Friday, Mansaray said. The remaining 45 passengers were missing and feared dead, he said. «After 72 hours we do not believe there will be any more survivors,» Mansaray told The Associated Press in the capital, Freetown. «We have asked the local fishermen to deploy their fishing chains to recover anymore dead bodies.»
