Search for 9 missing in Solomons after boat capsized

Police in Solomon Islands are searching for nine people missing from a boat found in Isabel province.

The boat set out from Gizo in Western Province in a north-east direction on January 15 bound for South Choiseul with five men, two women and two children onboard.

Five days later, a search party found the boat capsized to the east of their destination, near Kia in Isabel Province, with no sign of those who were on board.

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