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A wooden boat carrying 97 people from Indonesia has sunk off the western coast of Malaysia and 66 of the passengers are missing, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has said. | |
"This was an illegal boat and all the passengers were Indonesian," said Muhammad Zuri, a Malaysian maritime agency official. Zuri said 31 passengers had been rescued. | |
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The passengers included women and children and were suspected of trying to reach Malaysia illegally, a spokesman for the agency said. The agency had sent one boat to the area to search for survivors and was sending two more. | |
Malaysia's New Straits Times said the boat sank around midnight on Tuesday about two miles (3km) from the coastal town of Banting on the Strait of Malacca. | |