Image for representation purposes only Dozens of people remained missing on Monday after an ageing passenger ferry carrying at least 133 people capsized off Guyana’s Atlantic coast, killing at least two people, as rescue teams continued searching for survivors, authorities said. So far, 67 people, including 15 children, have been rescued after the MV Barima overturned during its voyage from Georgetown to Port Kaituma in the oil-rich Essequibo region. Authorities have recovered the bodies of one man and one woman, while everyone else who remains unaccounted for is being listed as missing rather than dead. The ferry left Georgetown on Saturday afternoon with 116 passengers and 17 crew members on board. It was travelling to Port Kaituma, a town in the Essequibo region, following the Atlantic coastline before heading upriver to its destination. Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said preliminary findings suggest the ferry capsized after being hit by a large wave. “Search and Rescue Advancing. Sixty-seven persons, inclusive of 15 children, rescued so far,” Edghill said in a social media post. Prime Minister Mark Phillips said those rescued include 41 men, 11 women, six boys and nine girls. He said the captain and the mate, who were among those rescued, had returned to the area to help with the search operation. Phillips also said officials have been in contact with the families of those rescued and the relatives of passengers and crew listed on the ferry’s manifest. Edghill, however, said the passenger manifest showing 133 people on board was not an accurate record of everyone travelling on the ferry. He urged families to contact authorities to help prepare a verified list of passengers. The ferry left Georgetown shortly after 3 p.m. on Saturday and sent a distress call at 11:01 p.m. local time, about eight hours into the journey. Edghill said rescue efforts were slowed at first by darkness and a lack of vessels equipped with scanners to locate pe