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Dozens Reported Missing After Speedboat Capsizes Near Borneo

A motorboat with 45 passengers capsized near the Indonesian coast of the Borneo island leaving at least eight people dead and dozens missing, media reported.
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According to local emergency services, the boat sank after hitting a chunk of wood floating in the sea, the Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

​"Eight people were killed, and personnel of the search and rescue office are searching and rescuing for the tens of missing people," a spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Office told Xinhua.

​There were reportedly six children on board the boat. It is unclear whether they have been rescued.

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