SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP):

A ferryboat carrying more than 100 passengers collided with a barge carrying fuel tanks and sank to the bottom of the Amazon River yesterday, officials said. At least 10 people died, and another nine were missing and feared dead.

The Almirante Monteiro capsized at dawn near the isolated Brazilian town of Itacoatiara in the jungle state of Amazonas, state fire spokesman Lt Clovis Araujo said.

He said 92 people were rescued by several small boats and the state's floating police station, a 32-foot (10-metre) vessel that travels up and down the river and was in the area at the time of the shipwreck.

Rescue teams recovered the bodies of four children, five women and one man, Araujo said.