India, Sept. 8 -- At least 11 people are missing after a hippopotamus overturned a passenger boat in southwestern Ivory Coast, authorities said. The missing include women, children and a baby.

The accident occurred on Friday morning as the vessel was navigating the Sassandra River near the town of Buyo.

The narrow, canoe-like boat was carrying 14 people when it was struck and overturned by the hippo. According to the country's Minister of Cohesion and Solidarity, Myss Belmonde Dogo, only three passengers have so far been rescued.

"It is with deep sorrow that we learned that 11 people, including women, girls and an infant, have gone missing following a boat capsized caused by a hippo," Dogo wrote in a translated statement posted on Face...