wooden boat

At least 14 decomposing bodies were on that small, wooden boat, say local police.

One survivor said that some in the party had been at sea for a month in a wooden boat.

Yusuke Yamazaki, 43, was arrested off Bulan island in Kepulauan Riau province on Jan. 31, while attempting to cross into Malaysia in a small wooden boat, said Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram, who heads the provincial office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.

A rickety, leaky wooden boat that brought them from Bangladesh was moored on a lighthouse island not far from the village, he said.

For the second Burning Boat Festival, visitors are invited to write notes of their New Year’s goals and place them into a wooden boat that will be set on fire at 9 p.m. at Des Moines Beach Park.