The World : Boats Sink; Toll May Be 100

More than 100 people drowned or were unaccounted for after two ferryboats--one of them carrying 183 schoolchildren on an outing--sank in the South China Sea, authorities said. The China News Service reported that a “heavily overloaded” Chinese ferry carrying four crew members and the schoolchildren capsized “a few days ago” off China’s southern Hainan Island, drowning 55 people and leaving seven missing. A second ferry sank off the central Philippines in the South China Sea, and the military said that 44 of the estimated 46 people aboard are missing. A radio report said the Liplip sank off Semirara Island, 190 miles south of Manila, after it was lashed by strong winds and high waves.