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Gabon ends search mission for missing ferry passengers

Relatives and friends stand next to candles and flowers placed for missing people from a ferry disaster is displayed at the port in Libreville on March 13, 2023 [File: Steeve Jordan/AFP]

Authorities in Gabon have announced the end of search and rescue operations to find the bodies of passengers trapped in a ferry accident in which dozens of people died last month.

The privately owned Esther Miracle vessel was carrying 161 people from the capital, Libreville, to Port-Gentil, an oil port town further south, when it capsized in calm waters on March 9 close to the coastal village of Nyonie.

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