article_snippet.sent: The 37-year-old was sailing on a traditional wooden cruise boat along the Mekong river Laos with three friends when the Mekong river hit a rock in a stretch of rapids.
article_snippet.sent: Johanna Powell was travelling on a boat like this along the Mekong river, when a boat like this hit a rock in a stretch of rapids.
article_snippet.sent: a boat like this set sail at 8am on Saturday, before the accident happened at 9.30am.
article_snippet.sent: Passengers on the trip are not required to wear life-jackets and one survivor said the water was very rough 'like a washing machine'. '
article_snippet.sent: Johanna Powell brother-in-law Dean Price said the family was told Her brother-in-law was asleep when a boat like this hit a rock in rapids causing a boat like this to tip, take on water and capsize, said the BBC.
article_snippet.sent: The tragedy happened in a remote part of Laos in the Mekong river, pictured.  
article_snippet.sent: The boat which has a steel bottom but is otherwise made of wood hit a rock in rapids and sank in a minute.
article_snippet.sent: Everyone on board went into the water but there were rocks for people to cling to. '
article_snippet.sent: The survivors of the accident clung to rocks on the Mekong river to help keep afloat .
article_snippet.sent: Alex Chitdara, co-owner of rival company Shompoo Cruise said the accident happened on a very isolated stretch of the Mekong river. '
article_snippet.sent: The water level is low, you have to know what you are doing to get a boat that big through the rapids.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Cruise boat hit a rock in a stretch of rapids and sank within minutes .
  