Overview
- The boat overturned around 6:15 a.m. local time near Grand-Santi on the border river with Suriname.
- The pirogue driver and two teachers reached the bank, while four primary school teachers remain unaccounted for.
- Search operations involve a civil security Dragon helicopter, another aircraft, about 30 rescuers including divers, and roughly ten pirogues; efforts stopped at sunset and are set to resume at dawn Sunday.
- Officials say the group was returning from a private trip in a region where many communities rely on river transport due to limited road access.
- Investigators have not determined the cause or whether passengers wore life jackets, which became compulsory on pirogues on January 1, against a backdrop of prior fatal accidents on the Maroni.