KUALA LUMPUR: One person is confirmed dead and about a dozen are still missing two days after an overloaded ferry capsized in rough rapids on a remote Borneo river, Malaysian police said Thursday.

The accident happened Tuesday on the Rajang river, Malaysia's longest, deep in the interior of the vast island of Borneo amid a spike in travel for a festival this weekend celebrated by indigenous tribes.

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