doc_text: A passenger ferry sank off the Caribbean coast while being towed to port, and 59 people drowned and six are missing, authorities and news reports said today.
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  Anibal Giron Arreola, a spokesman at the Puerto Barrios naval base, said the ferry Justo Rufino Barrios II sank Sunday afternoon in Amatique Bay.
  He said by telephone that 59 people died.
  Juan Jose Gaytan, a reporter at Radio Portena in Puerto Barrios, said the Justo Rufineo Barrios II ran out of fuel midway on a regular 16-mile run from the town Livingston, across the bay, to Puerto Barrios.
  Gaytan said the boat sank while it was being towed by a tugboat.
  The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City confirmed the sinking and said a 40-year-old Spanish citizen, Vicente Daudi, was among the dead.
  The embassy reported his wife, Rosa Maria Arnal, and a son survived the shipwreck, but two daughters were missing.
  Daudi was working with a Spanish technical aid and economic development mission in Guatemala, the embassy said.
  An official at the Puerto Barrios morgue said 13 bodies have been identified.
  Besides Daudi, the nationalities of the victims were not immediately known.
  Gaytan said navy patrol boats, fishing vessels and private craft have been searching the bay for survivors and recovering bodies.
  He said he had no other details on the shipwreck.
  Puerto Barrios, 187 miles northeast of the capital, is Guatemala's principal east coast port.
summary_text: Fifty-nine people drowned Sunday afternoon when a Caribbean passenger ferry sank while being towed into port by a tugboat.
  The ferry Justo Rufino Barrios II ran out of fuel midway on its regular 16-mile run across Amatique Bay, from Livingston to Puerto Barrios.
  Vicente Daudi, a 40-year-old Spanish citizen, was killed and two of his daughters are missing.
  Daudi was working with a Spanish technical aid and economic development mission in Guatemala.
  Navy patrol boats, fishing vessels, and private craft have been searching for survivors.
  Puerto Barrios, 187 miles NE of the capital, is Guatemala's principal east coast port.