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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - A motorized wooden boat crowded with passengers and merchandise capsized offshore from this West African nation's capital, drowning at least 46 people and possibly dozens more, Guinean officials and survivors said Friday.
The boat captain said the vessel was carrying 80 people when it sank heading to a dock in Conakry and only 34 survived. But local marine officials said as many as 100 people may have been aboard.
Ten bodies had been recovered by late Friday, said Ibrahima Sangare, police commissioner at the Conakry port.
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