A boat carrying eight Singaporean tourists capsized just off Bintan Island in western Indonesia’s Riau Islands province on Sunday, May 31.
Singapore-based news outlet AsiaOne reported that the passengers, which also included a nine-year-old child and six-month-old infant, were travelling on a scheduled tour of some nearby mangroves when their boat suddenly overturned in Bintan’s Lagoi Bay at around 14:00 local time on Sunday.
The capsizing occurred amid strong currents and shortly after the waters off Bintan experienced a sudden heavy downpour.