GUWAHATI: Around 105 people were confirmed dead and almost as many were missing after a river ferry with 350 people aboard broke apart in a storm and sank in northeast India yesterday, police said. Some 150 people were either rescued or swam to safety after the double-decker ferry, whose passengers included women and children, sank in the fast-flowing Brahmaputra river in Assam state.

Rescuers were struggling to find survivors but their efforts were hampered by high winds, torrential rains and darkness.