CONAKRY, March 29 (Reuters) - At least 60 people have been killed after a boat carrying around 120 passengers capsized off the coast of Guinea, state television in the West African country said on Thursday.

"It was a pirogue (open fishing boat) with 120 people on board which capsized. Thirty-six people survived," the television station said, broadcasting images of survivors being brought ashore.

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