At least 69 people have died after a boat carrying passengers to a traditional festival capsized in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti in East Africa. The wooden boat laden with construction materials and three times the passengers it was built for, sank just 100 metres from the port in Djibouti, a tiny Red Sea state, witnesses said. It was sailing for the town of Tadjoura, 35km northeast, when it went down shortly around 1pm local time on a pilgrimage known as Djamaad.Ali Mohamed, a survivor told Reuters: "It was so quick that people were brought down by the materials which sank with them." The vessel was thought to have been carrying between 250 to 300 people.