Rescuers from China and Myanmar are still searching for 14 people missing in a boat accident that occurred on Sunday on the Lancang River near Southwest China's Yunnan province, local officials said.

The Mengla county government said in a statement on Tuesday that 14 people, including eight students from Myanmar, remain missing despite several rounds of searches that are still under way.

A ferry, registered in Myanmar, overturned after leaving port in a village in Myanmar on Sunday at noon and sank into the Lancang River, upstream of the Mekong River.