**At least six people are dead and dozens are missing after a passenger boat capsized off the coast of Haiti, officials say.**Rescuers managed to save 16 people and a search is continuing for the others aboard the vessel, details of which were not given.
The boat was reportedly en route from Anse a Pitre to the southern city of Jacmel when it overturned.
Survivors were taken to a hospital in Jacmel, AFP news agency reports.
Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti’s civil protection agency, said some 60 people had been aboard the boat when the accident happened between the towns of Belle-Anse and Marigot.
Local authorities and the UN mission in Haiti are helping with the search and have requested help from local fisherman, AFP adds.
No theories for the cause of the accident were being reported in the immediate aftermath.