Amazon river shipwreck: search for missing undergoing

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Peruvian and Colombian patrol boats are searching for people missing for nearly two days after the boat they were traveling in sank on a stretch of the Amazon River that runs through Peru's Loreto region.
According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, a missing 17-year-old girl and a woman have now been confirmed dead.

The boat Flipper II sailed from Iquitos and was heading for Santa Rosa. It was carrying two crew members and 18 passengers, including six foreign nationals from Russia, India, the United States, Chile and Colombia.

According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, the boat hit a submerged tree trunk near Boca Cacao and started sinking. The first rescue operations were conducted by tourism vessels in the area which were able to rescue 12 of the passengers before a Colombian patrol boat arrived in the afternoon to pick them up, EFE reported.

The river patrol boat Rio Putumayo and Colombian navy patrol vessels are participating in the search operations. Three of those missing are reportedly minors.

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