Rescuers have recovered 11 bodies after an overloaded boat carrying around 90 people sank off Myanmar's southern coast, a local resident told AFP on Monday, with more than a dozen passengers still missing.
"We found 10 bodies last night and one this morning," said a monk from Kyauk Kar village in southern Tanintharyi region, from where the boat had left Sunday evening.
The boat had been carrying around 90 people, mostly students who were returning to Myeik city after a two-week break, according to the monk, who asked for anonymity to talk to the media.
"The boat left from the village at 9 pm (1430 GMT) which was too late already, and it was overloaded and sunk," he said.

He added that nine people had been rescued following the incident near Myeik, around 550 kilometres (340 miles) from Myanmar's biggest city Yangon.
Villagers had carried out cremations for the 11 bodies that had been recovered, he said, and local rescue teams were searching for the missing.
None of the recovered bodies were of students, the monk said.