Nine die in Indian boat accident

A large boat packed with villagers capsized in a river today in eastern India, killing nine people, police said.

The dead included seven women and a child, said Chayan Mukherjee, the inspector-general for law and order in West Bengal state, where the accident took place. The overcrowded vessel was carrying 70 people when it sank at Kultoli village in the Muri River, he said.