MORONI, Sept 12, 2007 (AFP) - Five people drowned in the Indian Ocean when a boat carrying illegal migrants from the Comoros to the French island of Mayotte capsized, officials said.

The boat capsized on Tuesday off the coast Bambao Mtsanga, a village on the eastern coast of the Comoros island of Anjouan.

'A shipwreck took place off Bambao Mstanga,' Anjouan transport minister Mohammed Abdu Mahdi told AFP.

MORONI, Sept 12, 2007 (AFP) - At least four people died and around 15 were missing Wednesday after a boat carrying illegal migrants capsized off the Comoros coast in the Indian ocean, officials said.

The boat capsized on Tuesday off the coast Bambao Mtsanga, a village on the eastern coast of the Comoros island of Anjouan.

'A shipwreck took place off Bambao Mstanga. Four bodies were recovered and buried but around 15 people are still missing,' Anjouan transport minister Mohammed Abdu Mahdi told AFP.

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte, Aug 13, 2007 (AFP) - Seventeen people, including eight children, were confirmed dead and 19 missing Monday after a boat carrying illegal migrants capsized off the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, police said.

Four survivors were plucked from the waters and evacuated to a hospital in the east of Mayotte, while a land, sea and air rescue operation was under way to try to recover the rest of the passengers.

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte, July 23, 2007 (AFP) - Two migrants were confirmed dead and up to 27 missing on Monday after their boat went down in rough waters off the remote French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, officials said.

Between 25 and 37 people were thought to be on board the vessel, which set sail from the nearby Comoros Islands but was wrecked overnight Saturday outside a lagoon off northern Mayotte, the prefecture said.