Two dead as boat capsizes

A boat capsized and sank off the northern coast of Sierra Leone, and at least two people died while another 21 were missing, officials said today.

The boat had been travelling from the West African country’s capital, Freetown, to the northern town of Kassiri yesterday when it capsized off the mouth of the Little Scarcies River at Bailo Point, said Mustapha Kamara, assistant superintendent of police in the district.