Malaysia boat capsizes, 21 missing

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Twenty-one people were missing after an overloaded boat carrying an estimated 100 passengers capsized Tuesday in a remote Malaysian jungle river, police and a local official said.

The accident occurred on Malaysia's longest river, the Rajang, which flows from deep in the rugged interior of Borneo island in the state of Sarawak, Bakar Anak Sebau, police chief of the remote town of Belaga, told AFP.

Abdul Halim Abdullah, the state government's local administrator for Belaga, told AFP the boat capsized downstream from the town as it was headed toward the coast.

"Around 21 people have not been accounted for," he said.

The boat was ferrying passengers traveling for this coming weekend's Gawai festival, one of the most important festivals celebrated each year by Sarawak's indigenous Dayak people.

Bakar said the boat's capacity was 74 people.