A boat capsized Sunday in a river swollen by monsoon rain in western Nepal, killing one person and leaving eight others missing and feared dead, AP quoted an official as saying. Kailali district chief administrator Chhetra Bahadur Bhandari said the boat was ferrying passengers across the Kanari river, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) west of Katmandu, when it capsized. Bhandari said rescuers recovered one body from the water, but eight passengers were missing and feared dead. Eleven other people on the boat managed to swim to safety. Bhandari said police and army rescuers were working with villagers to search for the missing people. Police were investigating the cause of the accident.
