25 dead, scores still missing in Myanmar ferry disaster: official

Searchers have recovered 25 bodies from a ferry that sank in central Myanmar and expect to find scores more corpses as workers begin raising the boat from the riverbed, officials said on Monday. "Now we have found 25 dead bodies but we are still trying to lift the boat out," said Sa Willy Frient, the director of the local relief and resettlement department who is overseeing the operation. Earlier he told AFP the ferry had been filled with "mainly university students and schoolteachers" when it s