Police arrest 2 attendants who survived a boat that capsized off the coast of Sierra Leone

October 8th, 2009 THEKKADY - The Crime Branch of Kerala Police investigating the Thekkady boat tragedy Thursday arrested the Chief Boat Inspector M. Mathews and a forest guard for negligence that led to the boat capsize last week killing 45 tourists.

October 7th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A boat capsized in Jajpur district of Orissa Wednesday but all its 46 passengers were rescued, officials said. "There were 46 people on board including six girl students.

September 10th, 2009 NAIROBI/FREETOWN - More than 200 people were missing and feared dead after a boat sank off Sierra Leone's coast during a heavy storm, the government said Thursday. Some 37 survivors have been found so far, but the ship was carrying at least 241 passengers when it sank on Tuesday night near the capital Freetown, the Al Jazeera news channel quoted Deputy Transport Minister Osmond Hanciles as saying.

September 10th, 2009 221 missing after Sierra Leone boat capsizesFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea and left at least eight dead, police said. Some 39 passengers have been rescued so far off the coast of the West African nation, police official Ibrahim Samura said.

September 10th, 2009 200 missing after Sierra Leone boat capsizesFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea, authorities said. Thirty-nine passengers have been rescued so far off the coast of the West African nation, said Naval Lt.

September 9th, 2009 FREETOWN - At least 80 children were killed when the boat in which they were travelling capsised off the coast of Sierra Leone capital during a storm, media reports said. A total of 150 people, including children were on board the vessel at the time of the accident Wednesday.

September 9th, 2009 Sierra Leone boat capsizes, 8 deadFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Police in Sierra Leone say a boat carrying 150 people has capsized on a river near the coast of the West African nation, killing at least eight people. Deputy Police Inspector General Morie Lengor says 36 people have been rescued so far.

August 31st, 2009 Texas boaters recount week lost in Gulf of MexicoBLESSING, Texas — One of three Texas men who spent a week lost at sea says rescue helicopters flew over as the men stayed with their capsized boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Tressel Hawkins told NBC's "Today Show" Monday that they saw the helicopters several days after their 23-foot catamaran capsized.

August 28th, 2009 Officials: 2 Haitian parents released from custodyWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Officials say they have released two Haitian parents whose baby girl drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off South Florida's coast.

July 28th, 2009 Vessel carrying as many as 200 Haitians capsizesPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — A vessel carrying as many as 200 Haitian migrants capsized and sank near the Turks and Caicos Islands on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

July 27th, 2009 Charles Taylor denies sending arms to Sierra LeoneAMSTERDAM — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pointed to impassible roads and his country's own mineral wealth Monday to deny key testimony at his war crimes trial that he had traded arms for diamonds in Sierra Leone. Taylor, starting his third week of testimony at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, said neither of the two roads that led to the Sierra Leone border could support vehicles laden with weapons, as alleged by a prosecution witness.

June 9th, 2009 Second man charged in fatal Fla. smuggling tripMIAMI — A second person faces charges in the case of a migrant smuggling boat that capsized May 13 off South Florida's coast, killing nine people.

May 13th, 2009 Officials: Fla. boat flips, 28 migrants thrownMIAMI — Coast Guard officials in Florida say they are responding to a report that a boat capsized and threw about 28 migrants into the water off the Fort Lauderdale coast.

April 29th, 2009 6 Pakistanis, others die off Malaysia coastKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Six members of a Pakistani family and three others drowned when their excursion boat capsized off southern Malaysia, officials said Wednesday. A 14-year-old boy from the family survived.

April 22nd, 2009 Sierra Leone sends 3 to US to face drug chargesFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone authorities say three men convicted of drug smuggling have been sent to the U.S. where they are wanted on similar charges.