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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Officials say rescue workers have found the bodies of four more passengers of the ferryboat that sank in a remote Amazon region in northern Brazil. The discovery raises the death toll to 21.
Rescuers on Monday recover a body from a boat that sank in a remote Amazon region of northern Brazil.
Deputy Fire Commander Col. Carlos Bacelar says 60 passengers survived the accident and that as many as 10 could still be missing.
Bacelar said Tuesday that rescuers now believe there were less than 100 people on the Comandante Sales ferryboat when it sank Sunday.
He said the numbers have been revised downward as a result of requests for information from relatives and friends of missing passengers.
The wooden ferryboat capsized in a pre-dawn rainstorm Sunday on the Solimoes River, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, said Fire Lt. Col. Raimundo Rodrigues da Silva.
Revelers had rented the boat to travel from their small river town to another for a party, Brazilian media reported.
Authorities said the ferry had been grounded months ago after failing an inspection. Boats serve as buses in the area because there are few roads.
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