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Five people are dead and dozens are missing after a 9-metre (30-ft) boat capsized off Haiti, officials said, revising an earlier toll of six deaths.
Rescuers saved 26 people and a search is continuing for the others aboard the vessel, which emergency services believe may have been overloaded.
The boat was reportedly en route from Anse a Pitre to the southern city of Jacmel when it overturned.
Survivors were taken to a hospital in Jacmel, AFP news agency reports.
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