Rescuers comb the waters off Guinea, desperately searching for the survivors of a deadly weekend boat accident.<br/> <br />At least eight people perished and dozens more are missing after a wooden ferry capsized Friday near Conakry, the capital of the West African state.<br/> <br />Port officials have not said what caused the boat to flip, but one survivor says the seas were rough.<br/> <br />"There was a lot of wind," says Mame Asta Bangoura. "We had hardly passed the signal area when the engine stopped again and the boat capsized."<br/> <br />Relatives of the victims, many overcome by grief, gathered near the local morgue.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(Soussou) IBRAHIMA CONDE, PARENT OF THREE VICTIMS, SAYING:<br/> <br />"When they started to fish out the bodies I saw there was the body of my aunt and her two children. They are all at the morgue now."<br/> <br />It was the latest in a series of accidents off the coast of West Africa where boats are often overcrowded and poorly maintained.
